> Set the Primary DNS to the XP machine, the secondary DNS to your ISP's
> primary DNS, put the IP of the XP machine in your /etc/hosts file, set
> Mozilla/Netscape (Under ADVANCED / HTTP NETWORKING) to Enable Keep-Alive
> and Enable Pipelining (under the Direct Connection Options).

This saga keeps going.

Today, when receiving my emails (only Evolution was connected), the
connection to the LAN was lost. For a couple of minutes I couldn't even
ping the gateway.

I tried a few times with the same outcome: I couldn't get the mails and
needed to start all over. I realized that the only way to get the
connection back was by pinging the gateway. It took 2 or 3 minutes of
pinging to get it back.

So I decided to hook the Linux laptop directly to the ADSL modem,
without firewall or NAT. No protection whatsoever. I thought it might be
a faulty network cable or even the hub.

But then again, the same problem. And again, I needed to ping the
default gateway provided by the ISP to get the connection back.

So I suppose there must be some faulty interaction between Mandrake and
the laptop NIC.

Just came up to my mind to try this running Linux within VMWare in a XP
box. It might me the NIC driver. I will report tonight. I got some
business meetings now.

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