i think i fixed it (it's been up for 48 hours now without a slowdown). i killed
the gated as someone suggested and it was fine.
i prefer the static ip address setup. i don't have to manually connect (my isp
requires -h xxxx for dhcp), and it's easier to setup. my ip is leased though,
so it'll always be the same unless they reorganize their network, and then
they'll tell me beforehand. i've got about the same network setup you do and
have had many people suggest that i go to a masqueraded firewalled setup
because our windoze machines are just asking to be cracked. i'd suggest you
look into it too (and it saves $7 a month off my bill).
On 15-Jun-99 Franklin Black scribbled:
> hi Jason:
> I have my cable modem hooked up to a RH6 box. I tried the DHCP
> route and experienced about the same thing. I changed back to the static IP
> and everything improved a tremendous amount. I went through the online
> documentation and it mentioned using static IPs for 'UNIX or special
> configurations'. I set my Windows machine (I have two cable modem IP
> addresses on my little network) to use DHCP and it has always retained the
> lease on the original IP address. (for 6 months so far)
> If you disconnect your PC from the network (Turn it off, etc) for more than
> 7 days, you would probably lose your static address. If you don't plan on
> doing that, it should always be able to use that IP address. I just think
> DHCP is easier for your ISP to manage, so they 'strongly suggest' you use
> that method.
>
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> when i use a cable modem with RH 6.0 and kernel 2.2.5 my network activity
> stalls constantly and gets thruput (when it works) less than 1kBps.
> i get the same problem with it setup as a dhcp client (the correct protocol
> according to my isp) as i do with it as a static ip setup. it works fine on
> the
> same hardware on RH5.2 (kernel 2.0.26) and windoze 98, so i don't think it's
> bad hardware. and at the same time it's stalling, i can get great thruput on
> my
> other machine running RH5.2, so i don't think it's just bad timing. they are
> connected thru the same hub. the nic is a realtek NE2000 pci running the
> ne2k-pci module.
> is there a known problem with RH6 or the 2.2 kernel with this card? i
> couldn't
> find anything about it in how-to's and such.
>
> TIA
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