Anders Johansson wrote: > On Thursday 25 January 2007 06:07, > [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? > > When you say "freeze up", do you really mean freeze, or is it just that > they lose the network connection? > > Could it be as simple as one of the other machines connected uses the same > IP address as you, so it "steals" the packets destined for your machine? > The windows session in vmware would use a different IP, so it wouldn't be > affected > > Another, less likely, possibility is that one of the machines has the same > MAC address as you, which would also wreak havoc if you like to find out, wireshark will be your friend
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