Re: [opensuse] my internet hub prefers windoze to linux!

2007-01-31 Thread kanenas
perhaps vmnet1 or vmnet8 might be the problem, i had never thought of that. They are at least initialized at bootup, perhaps they really screw up eth0. Ok, i will remove them and try again. thanks:) Well, we had some very high winds lately and numerous short lived power outages. The first

Re: [opensuse] my internet hub prefers windoze to linux!

2007-01-28 Thread kanenas
On Wednesday 24 January 2007 22:22, John Andersen wrote: On Wednesday 24 January 2007 23:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 24 January 2007 20:40, Tom Patton wrote: On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 23:36 -0600, M Harris wrote: I would recommend the Skylink 8 Port switch... relatively

Re: [opensuse] my internet hub prefers windoze to linux!

2007-01-25 Thread kanenas
On Wednesday 24 January 2007 20:40, Tom Patton wrote: On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 23:36 -0600, M Harris wrote: I would recommend the Skylink 8 Port switch... relatively inexpensive, and very fast (does 10/100,. and keeps track of 100 or 10 separately) for the money for a wired network. I'd

Re: [opensuse] my internet hub prefers windoze to linux!

2007-01-25 Thread John Andersen
On Wednesday 24 January 2007 23:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 24 January 2007 20:40, Tom Patton wrote: On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 23:36 -0600, M Harris wrote: I would recommend the Skylink 8 Port switch... relatively inexpensive, and very fast (does 10/100,. and keeps track of

Re: [opensuse] my internet hub prefers windoze to linux!

2007-01-25 Thread James Knott
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 24 January 2007 20:40, Tom Patton wrote: On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 23:36 -0600, M Harris wrote: I would recommend the Skylink 8 Port switch... relatively inexpensive, and very fast (does 10/100,. and keeps track of 100 or 10 separately) for the

Re: [opensuse] my internet hub prefers windoze to linux!

2007-01-25 Thread Kenneth Schneider
On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 22:10 -1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 24 January 2007 20:40, Tom Patton wrote: On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 23:36 -0600, M Harris wrote: I would recommend the Skylink 8 Port switch... relatively inexpensive, and very fast (does 10/100,. and keeps track of 100

Re: [opensuse] my internet hub prefers windoze to linux!

2007-01-25 Thread M Harris
On Thursday 25 January 2007 06:46, Kenneth Schneider wrote: Look at also turning off ipv6 and see if that makes a difference. I would suspect ipv6 also, although James has a point regarding M$ following specs. I was thinking more along the lines of the root cause--the hub--and not the

Re: [opensuse] my internet hub prefers windoze to linux!

2007-01-25 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2007-01-25 at 07:18 -0500, James Knott wrote: One thought is that Windows doesn't back off properly after collisions or otherwise behave nice. It wouldn't be the first time MS has violated spec. Collisions are handled directly at

Re: [opensuse] my internet hub prefers windoze to linux!

2007-01-25 Thread Anders Johansson
On Thursday 25 January 2007 09:22, John Andersen wrote: So If I understand that correctly you are using bridged networking in the vmware machine? That requires the host os to alias the nic, and put it into promiscuous mode, No, not really. proxyarp does the job well, without using

Re: [opensuse] my internet hub prefers windoze to linux!

2007-01-25 Thread Anders Johansson
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

Re: [opensuse] my internet hub prefers windoze to linux!

2007-01-25 Thread ianseeks
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

Re: [opensuse] my internet hub prefers windoze to linux!

2007-01-25 Thread John Andersen
On Thursday 25 January 2007 10:28, Anders Johansson wrote: On Thursday 25 January 2007 09:22, John Andersen wrote: So If I understand that correctly you are using bridged networking in the vmware machine? That requires the host os to alias the nic, and put it into promiscuous mode,

RE: [opensuse] my internet hub prefers windoze to linux!

2007-01-25 Thread Cruz Adam
Hi, I am having exactly the same problem. My ISP has a content server which caches the most visited sites (my SUSE 10.2 has no problem to access). However my SUSE 10.2 could never open a less frequent website. But if I use my windows, there is no problem to access at all and the speed is as

[opensuse] my internet hub prefers windoze to linux!

2007-01-24 Thread kanenas
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,

Re: [opensuse] my internet hub prefers windoze to linux!

2007-01-24 Thread John Andersen
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

Re: [opensuse] my internet hub prefers windoze to linux!

2007-01-24 Thread M Harris
On Wednesday 24 January 2007 23:14, John Andersen wrote: 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 is correct... ... but maybe a small explanation would help... The hub is

Re: [opensuse] my internet hub prefers windoze to linux!

2007-01-24 Thread Tom Patton
On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 23:36 -0600, M Harris wrote: I would recommend the Skylink 8 Port switch... relatively inexpensive, and very fast (does 10/100,. and keeps track of 100 or 10 separately) for the money for a wired network. I'd suggest buying a gigabit switch to cover future