RPMs and Internet speed

[Jim Hayward]

On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 05:54, Danesh Daroui wrote:
> I have a serious problem with mly recently installed Fedora Core 2.
> The first problem is when I want to install a RPM package it asks me
> to associate a program to run RPM package and ask me the path of
> program which can open RPM packages. It is strange because why they
> didn't set it up to recognize and open RPM packages automatically.
> Anyway, what should I do ? 

As Rick mentioned this is because RPM defaults to Real Media. This was
recently discussed on the fedora-desktop list. You can read the thread
below.

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-desktop-list/2004-June/msg00039.html

A bug has already been filed for this.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=123242


>  Another problem is that my internet conection speed in my Linux
> installed system is too low. 

How is it "low"? One issue with Mozilla in FC2 can be slow DNS
resolving. This is an issue with Mozilla when the ipv6 module is loaded.
It is loaded in FC2 by default. You can prevent it from loading at boot
time by adding this to your /etc/modprobe.conf.

alias net-pf-10 off

>  By the way, do you have any idea how can I have any indicator like
> windows system near the clock of system which shows if data
> transmition is in process or not ? In windows there is two small
> computer which show if you are sending or receiving data from and to
> internet, is there something like that in Linux too ?

If you are using GNOME, you can add the GNOME Net Status applet to the
panel. I don't believe this applet is installed by default. It is on
CD3. This applet shows the traffic on your network interface. Not
specifically just Internet traffic.

gnome-netstatus-2.6.0.1-1.i386.rpm

Regards,
	Jim H
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