Carl Hartung wrote:
On Sunday 16 October 2005 01:48, Sid Boyce wrote:
Though most others report it works, it's obviously quirky in a year 2005 Linux distro. 1.4a12 solves the problem... ... I can't understand why any distro should still be using a 2002 version of a utility.
Hi Sid,
I think there's still some value to be found in the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" principal. Of course, now it's acting "broken" here but in a completely different way than what you've reported. I'd sure like to rule out operator error ;-) or a faulty config before introducing an unsupported package to this system. Thanks for the feedback!
- Carl
I had noticed for quite a while that my box was slow, I put it down to hardware, these drat A7N8X-E motherboards. I've had a number of them fail and the one I had on this box refused to work with Kingston DDR400 memory until I found a modified Asus BIOS that a guy produced, but it still ran my XP3200+ as a XP2600+. When I thought software it was that it was so much slower than the XP2800+ Mandriva box using the same motherboard and that's when top revealed the problem. Since upgrading to 1.4a12 on both this x86 box and the x86_64 laptop, the problem has ceased. I've also changed the A7N8X-E for the A7V880 and at last have a XP3200+ and 1Gig Kingston memory working. To me a server that's out of puff running a 2.2 kernel is broken and needs a 2.6 kernel to fix that, that's my definition of broken. I guess that SuSE thought there were no issues with traceroute at 0.6.2, but for whatever reason it's causing problems, it could be something else is broken, but 1.4a12 at least gets over it and it's long since SuSE's philosophy was to stay downlevel to the extent where I was forced to do a whole slew of upgrades after installing or upgrading to a new distro. 10.0 DVD is in and upgrade x86_64 is underway. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, licensed Private Pilot Retired IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks