Internet lockup

Kam Leo kam.leo at gmail.com
Mon May 1 01:25:58 UTC 2006


On 4/30/06, Gordon Gallup <gallup.gordon at gmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings All,
>    Sorry if this appears twice, but an earlier message got lost in cyberspace.
>    I have a new e-machine T6420.  It is connected to a hub with three
> other machines and the hub is connected to a Siemans DSL
> "modem-router".  I installed FC5 on the T6420.  FC5 is configured to
> use DHCP at boot time. The behavior is somewhat flakey, but it appears
> that ssh and sftp (particularly the
> latter) break networking if I attempt to send too much information.
> It appears to require a reboot to re-estaablish contact. Fiddling with
> the inetd.network script does nothing I can detect, although it thinks
> the network is up.  Before the death, pinging works fine all around
> the machines connected to the hub and also to my office machine across
> town.  In addition, Firefox works for a while, but I can't say yet
> just how long.
>    Attempting to connect with the kio-slave 'fish' never works.
> Thanks for any help, GAG
>

Replace the hub with a switch.




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