On Thursday 25 January 2007 05:07, [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
Possibly a bad NIC in the XP box. One symptom we used to have in the long distant past was that if a NIC went bad on a PC connected to a Hub, it just flooded the network. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
