OK... but what confuses me about all this is it's not a 100% drop. Torrents are not interrupted, VoIP calls are not interrupted and there is no quality drop during a call while this is happening. Online gaming never hiccups either, and that is particularly susceptible to network latency and disconnects.
Yet you can't ping anything or anyone? That would appear to suggest that ICMP traffic is blocked, whilst UDP and TCP keeps working .... weird. The question is - you say that torrents, voip and games are not interrupted, but do they all keep going?
Yes, that is correct.. during the 30 to 60 second outage, I cannot ping anyone outside my local LAN. I used several IPs that responded to pings while things were working normally. During an outage on Sunday it was as if I had pulled the CAT-5 out of the back of the PC... but during this same outage I was talking to a friend via Skype, and had a Torrent ISO downloading, as well as an online game running (WoW in Cedega to be specific). None of these experienced any dropouts at all.. only the browser/ping/traceroute/dig etc. This would be so much easier to trace down if it was a 100% dropout :-P Just for completeness, I've also rebooted the ADSL modem, the Router, and then the PC... just to see if there was some service running that was interrupting things. I haven't had time/opportunity to test a second computer connected to the router yet. I've set up a second machine running WindowsXP (to have a different OS environment to test with), and I hope that this evening I'll be able to try pings, web browsing etc from that second machine during an outage on the first. Maybe this will show something helpful... like if it also fails on the second machine, then the problem is likely in the router, modem or ISP... if it works, then the problem is likely to be something on the first machine. Also, I've noticed periodic short term (2 seconds or so) system freezes since the latest 11.1 re-install I've done.... that may or may not be related. I can't yet link the two events (a freeze with a loss of internet connectivity). I'm still poking through the messages log, trying to see if anything odd pops up. It's getting to the point that I'm seriously tempted to re-install again just to have that clean slate. :-P (I've had a lot of other annoying little issues since the latest reinstall.. like I still cannot get fetchmail to grab the mail from my host since the reinstall despite using the same config files as before, but that's another issue for another day). C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org