Re: [Eug-lug]slooow cable modem connection on 'nix

2002-12-18 Thread Linux Rocks !
Yet another reason to not use RedScat. so... do you think att is optimized for win98? maybe they trhottle base on uname -r ? Jamie On Tuesday 17 December 2002 09:57 pm, Horst wrote: : Recently I installed RH 8.0 from the demo CDs and noticed very slow : download rates over cable (for

Re: [Eug-lug]slooow cable modem connection on 'nix

2002-12-18 Thread Po Petz
On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Horst wrote: Any hints? --for either cure or diagnostic ? (I am willing to dig through long logs of ngrep or ethereal *if* needed) Wild stabs: What kind of ethernet card are you using? What does ifconfig have to say about your nic? Any RX/TX errors or drops? Have you

Re: [Eug-lug]ANNOUNCEMENT: PLUG's December Advanced Topics Meeting

2002-12-18 Thread Joseph Carter
On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 02:18:32PM -0800, Bob Miller wrote: I'm really disappointed I can't go to this one. Same - I'm very interested in somewhat unorthodox PDAs .. =) -- Joseph Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sanity is counterproductive Z.O.I.D.: Zombie Optimized for Infiltration

Re: [Eug-lug]Meeting on the 26th?

2002-12-18 Thread Joseph Carter
On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 03:31:24PM -0800, Patrick R. Wade wrote: Are we having a meeting on Dec 26th to show off our new toys? If I am back in town then, I will be there. =) I do not know for certain that I will be though. -- Joseph Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] This thing

[Eug-lug]Something to think about during the holidaze...

2002-12-18 Thread Linux Rocks !
(origianlly I was going to post a link to this on activism... but then I though... hey eug-lug is archived on the web... Ill just post the whole thing! Many of you have already read this probably... I think I may have too... I watched this movie (DVD's are soo cool!) about 3 guys that are

[Eug-lug]You have a secret admirer!

2002-12-18 Thread Linux Rocks !
Sigh... I just got this one... Presumably its just a way to get web traffic... (I intentionally left out the email address it came from...) but there was no message, just a subject line, and an email address it came from... just think about how many poor shlumps that got all excited and thought

[Eug-lug]Re: [activism] Something to think about during the holidaze...

2002-12-18 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 01:35:54AM -0800, Linux Rocks ! wrote: Many of you have already read this probably... Yeah, but it's hard to argue against such well intentioned, 'simple' advice :) Thanks for the reminder(s). -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

Re: [Eug-lug]slooow cable modem connection on 'nix

2002-12-18 Thread Horst
No, I don't think it's Red Hat specific (as far as 'thinking' can go if you are clueless). As I indicated, with other earlier distros I experienced things similar to some extend, but w/o ever documenting transfer rates. Can you expand on what maybe they trhottle base on uname -r ? means ? -

Re: [Eug-lug]slooow cable modem connection on 'nix

2002-12-18 Thread Horst
On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Po Petz wrote: On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Horst wrote: Any hints? --for either cure or diagnostic ? (I am willing to dig through long logs of ngrep or ethereal *if* needed) Wild stabs: What kind of ethernet card are you using? What does ifconfig have to say about

Re: [Eug-lug]slooow cable modem connection on 'nix

2002-12-18 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 03:14:09AM -0800, Horst wrote: ... kernel: http://www.scyld.com/network/ne2k-pci.html Did you read that? ... kernel: AMD756: dev 10ec:8029, router pirq : 4 get irq : 10 ... kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:0c.0 ... kernel: PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:07.4

Re: [Eug-lug]Something to think about during the holidaze...

2002-12-18 Thread Mike O
That whole 'spoken song' had air time a few years back on the local radio stations in AZ. I'm sure others have heard it too. Another point though is; who the heck needs sunscreen in Eugene?! Most days there is not a sky in the cloud. __ Do you

Re: [Eug-lug]Something to think about during the holidaze...

2002-12-18 Thread Bob Crandell
You still need sunscreen to protect yourself from sunny personalities. Mike O ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote*: That whole 'spoken song' had air time a few years back on the local radio stations in AZ. I'm sure others have heard it too. Another point though is; who the heck needs sunscreen in Eugene?!

Re: [Eug-lug]slooow cable modem connection on 'nix

2002-12-18 Thread Mike O
How about recompiling your kernel to get rid of any extra crud RH tends to add to the system. Aren't kernel compiles the answer to all of life's questions? :) Otherwise if the card is not onboard, try a different slot. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail

Re: [Eug-lug]slooow cable modem connection on 'nix

2002-12-18 Thread Horst
On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Jacob Meuser wrote: On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 03:14:09AM -0800, Horst wrote: ... kernel: http://www.scyld.com/network/ne2k-pci.html Did you read that? Now I did. Wow, if even the *author* of the kernel module says the following I may have to go NIC shopping: PCI

Re: [Eug-lug]Meeting on the 26th?

2002-12-18 Thread Bob Miller
Mike O wrote: Somebody buying you new toys? I can hardly afford to get myself anything cool right now. You don't have to get yourself anything. You just have to let your adoring fans know what you'd like. -- Bob Miller Kbob kbobsoft software consulting

Re: [Eug-lug]slooow cable modem connection on 'nix

2002-12-18 Thread Bob Miller
Here's somebody on the web who had a very similar problem, with a similar solution. http://msgs.securepoint.com/cgi-bin/get/netfilter-0211/37/1.html I wonder if your cable modem is using a larger MTU than ethernet has, and is repacketizing your TCP stream along the way. That would allow it to

Re: [Eug-lug]slooow cable modem connection on 'nix

2002-12-18 Thread Linux Rocks !
Well... I didnt say it was RedScat specific. I simply said Yet another reason to not use RedScat. There are many other reasons I dont use it, or support it. Hopefully w/in a month, Ill be able to do my own testing with Broadband... What I was trying to elude to with the uname -r tells

[Eug-lug]January Meeting Announcement

2002-12-18 Thread Cooper Stevenson
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Re: [Eug-lug]slooow cable modem... end-of-story

2002-12-18 Thread Horst
Thanks Bob, interesting link suggestion, but it came too late -- I read your message on Mike's computer at Mike's store, and left with an Intel PRO/100 S NIC. Now this is so cool - the JPGs in Mozilla pop up like they would be in cache (but they aren't), and scp is twice(!) as fast as what I had

[Eug-lug]evolution review in eWeek

2002-12-18 Thread Ben Barrett
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,768073,00.asp ciao gang, enjoy! b PS - I had some mail problems, am not getting euglug list emails anymore, but I checked my sub and it seems okay... anyone, help? -- Ben Barrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] counterclaim

Re: [Eug-lug]slooow cable modem... end-of-story

2002-12-18 Thread Roger
Around Wed,Dec 18 2002, at 04:51, Horst, wrote: Thanks Bob, interesting link suggestion, but it came too late -- I read your message on Mike's computer at Mike's store, and left with an Intel PRO/100 S NIC. Does MTU mean mess(age) transfer unit ? Hhm, though largely acadimic now, if

Re: [Eug-lug]Meeting on the 26th?

2002-12-18 Thread Mike O
Just in case I have any fans here... I'd like a Creative Muvo (128MB) mp3 player, a SliMp3, a borg teddy bear, and XP2600 CPU, Innovatek water cooling kit, 40 LCD projection TV, and an ATI AIW 9700 PRO. Guess that'll do me fine. Oh, I've been a good boy this year too. :) --- Bob Miller [EMAIL

Re: [Eug-lug]evolution review in eWeek

2002-12-18 Thread Linux Rocks !
I havnt seen any errors reported by by mailman... The list is archived on the web, so you could look there. I cant check EFN's mail log, but you could probably check counterclaims mail log. got any mail filtering going on? On Wednesday 18 December 2002 05:02 pm, Ben Barrett wrote: :