Slow Internet connection for Fedora 4

[Ole Robert Hestvik]

     This ADSL line uses DHCP.
     Connected to an other Fedora 1 machine I get:

[root at localhost root]# ifconfig -a
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:E0:00:85:A6:2F
           inet addr:10.0.0.3  Bcast:10.0.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
           RX packets:270338 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
           TX packets:39878 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
           RX bytes:38095780 (36.3 Mb)  TX bytes:3933215 (3.7 Mb)
           Interrupt:9 Base address:0x8000

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
           inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
           UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
           RX packets:963 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
           TX packets:963 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
           RX bytes:106017 (103.5 Kb)  TX bytes:106017 (103.5 Kb)

     While installing Fedora 4 the options Firewall and SELinux were not 
selected. Can this have anything to do with the problem?

Noel Hall wrote:
> I don't see an IP address in your ifconfig output for eth0.  Are you
> using static IPs or DHCP to determine IP addresses?
> 
> My ifconfig output:
> 
> [root at genesis ~]# ifconfig -a
> eth0    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:B0:D0:3D:39:91
>         inet addr:192.168.1.100  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>         inet6 addr: fe80::2b0:d0ff:fe3d:3991/64 Scope:Link
>         UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>         RX packets:2353 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>         TX packets:1891 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>         collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>         RX bytes:1806538 (1.7 MiB)  TX bytes:263972 (257.7 KiB)
>         Interrupt:185 Base address:0xd480
> 
> lo      Link encap:Local Loopback
>         inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
>         inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
>         UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
>         RX packets:158 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>         TX packets:158 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>         collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>         RX bytes:16295 (15.9 KiB)  TX bytes:16295 (15.9 KiB)
> 
> sit0    Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4
>         NOARP  MTU:1480  Metric:1
>         RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>         TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>         collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>         RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 23:05 +0100, Ole Robert Hestvik wrote:
> 
>>Andy Green wrote:
>>
>>>On Monday 05 September 2005 21:59, Ole Robert Hestvik wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>>>64 bytes from vg.no (193.69.165.21): icmp_seq=0 ttl=246 time=3526 ms
>>>>>
>>>>>What does ifconfig say, particularly the various error counters?
>>>>
>>>>    At the moment the connection cannot be activated, and I am not able
>>>
>>>
>>>/sbin/ifconfig -a
>>>
>>>should still have something to say.  But why is it this connection "cannot be 
>>>activated"?
>>>
>>>-Andy
>>>
>>
>>      Network Configuration->Activate fails, the error message is:
>>
>>Cannot activate network device eth0!
>>Determining IP information for eth0...PING 10.0.0.1 (10.0.0.1) from 
>>10.0.0.2 eth0: 56(84) bytes of data.
>>
>>--- 10.0.0.1 ping statistics ---
>>4 packets transmitted, 0 received, +3 errors, 100% packet loss, time 2998ms
>>, pipe 4
>>  failed.
>>
>>      Sorry to say I am not familiar with these network functions. I 
>>hope ifconfig can tell us something:
>>
>>[root at localhost oler]# ifconfig -a
>>eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0A:9D:05:1C:63
>>           BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>>           RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>>           TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>>           RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
>>
>>lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
>>           inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
>>           inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
>>           UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
>>           RX packets:3787 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>>           TX packets:3787 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>>           RX bytes:5515768 (5.2 MiB)  TX bytes:5515768 (5.2 MiB)
>>
>>sit0      Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4
>>           NOARP  MTU:1480  Metric:1
>>           RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>>           TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>>           RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
>>
>>Regards
>>-- 
>>Siv.ing. Ole Robert Hestvik  Vega 7503-6016 Trondheim 4150-8743
>>Olex AS  www.olex.no
>>
>>
> 
> 
Regards
-- 
Siv.ing. Ole Robert Hestvik  Vega 7503-6016 Trondheim 4150-8743
Olex AS  www.olex.no