On Wednesday 24 January 2007 20:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a cable modem, connected to a 4 port hub for my home network. The two > most active ports are the ones connected to my linux box and my son's hub. He > usually runs just his xp box, maybe another machine. Occasionally he hooks up > 4-5 machines and plays games over the net with his buddies, all hooked up to > his hub. When he does that, my linux box essentially loses all contact with > the net. Kmail, konqueror, firefox, opera etc, all freeze up in my linux box, > both under suse10.1 and 10.2. The maddening thing is that if i fire up vmware > and start a windoze virtual machine inside my linux, it has *no* problem > accessing the net!!!! > There must be an explanation for this, but I know too little to come up with > it. What do the gurus say? > d
Toss hub. Buy Switch. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
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