I couldn't find an answer to this by research. If you have a recommended research resource, I'd appreciate learing it. I have SuSE 9.1, lots of memory, running on a dual boot Pentium attached via a Linksys router to the cable modem. The IP settings are fixed: IP is an internal address 4.18.22.130 default gateway 4.18.22.142 the Linksys subnet mask 255.255.255.192 primary & alternate DNS provided by ISP If I boot in XP which I no longer use, IE browses virtually immediately with the same fixed settings. If booting under SuSE, all browsers are painfully slow, typically > 30 secs I also have XP loaded under vmware (why the dual boot is not needed). IE under vmware loads a typical page in about 10 secs. Same fixed IP settings except the assigned IP is .136. I'm obviously missing something but can't determine what. Any assistance would be appreciated. Thanks, jcp
Hi John, On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 18:59:22 -0400 UTC (5:59 PM -0500 UTC my time), you wrote in part: J> If I boot in XP which I no longer use, IE browses virtually immediately J> with the same fixed settings. J> If booting under SuSE, all browsers are painfully slow, typically > 30 secs J> I also have XP loaded under vmware (why the dual boot is not needed). J> IE under vmware loads a typical page in about 10 secs. Same fixed IP settings J> except the assigned IP is .136. J> I'm obviously missing something but can't determine what. Most assuredly if it takes this long, it is a DNS issue. Check your hosts file and if you are not running a DNS server, put in your ISPs DNS. Also, you you have your gateway in SUSE set up for the internal IP address of your Linksys? Typically 192.168.1.1 -- okay
Most assuredly if it takes this long, it is a DNS issue. Check your hosts file and if you are not running a DNS server, put in your ISPs DNS.
Also, you you have your gateway in SUSE set up for the internal IP address of your Linksys? Typically 192.168.1.1
-- okay Hi okay, Sorry to be so dense. I tried to research DNS on the web and have read a lot about DNS, mainly servers, before bothering you all again. My LAN side is 4.18.22.142. Our former network guru liked that and all
On Wednesday 22 June 2005 19:31, okay wrote: the Windows boxes work with that gateway. The WAN is DHCP to the cable modem. If I type 4.18.22.142 in a browser URL, it asks for a Linksys login. Anyway, I was trying to determine what exactly to put in the /etc/hosts file. My ISP is www.atlanticbb.net. The host command shows its IP address to be 208.197.227.20. I put that in the hosts file with the URL in the hostname column and rebooted to no avail. I could put the DNS IP addresses in that are under the TCP/IP DNS entries and show in the /etc/resolv.conf file on a nameserver line. However, I'm not sure what to enter as the hostname for those 2 addresses. A DNS server (named) is not running. Could I ask what exactly goes in /etc/hosts for the ISP's DNS? Thanks. jcp
On Friday 24 June 2005 23:17, John C. Plummer wrote:
Could I ask what exactly goes in /etc/hosts for the ISP's DNS? Thanks. jcp
Nothing. the hosts file is used *instead of* DNS, it's not where you set your name server IP. Don't touch it. Your ISP's name servers should go in /etc/resolv.conf each on a separate line with the word 'nameserver' in front, like nameserver 1.2.3.4 nameserver 5.6.7.8 Nothing else is needed. It is very unusual that you ever have to touch /etc/hosts. It's mostly used to define the name/IP for 'localhost', that's about it these days
On Friday 24 June 2005 17:35, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Friday 24 June 2005 23:17, John C. Plummer wrote:
Could I ask what exactly goes in /etc/hosts for the ISP's DNS? Thanks. jcp
Nothing. the hosts file is used *instead of* DNS, it's not where you set your name server IP. Don't touch it. Your ISP's name servers should go in /etc/resolv.conf each on a separate line with the word 'nameserver' in front, like
nameserver 1.2.3.4 nameserver 5.6.7.8
Nothing else is needed.
It is very unusual that you ever have to touch /etc/hosts. It's mostly used to define the name/IP for 'localhost', that's about it these days Anders, Thanks for the input. Any thoughts on what could be causing excessive browser response times, about 3 times as long as IE in XP under vmware and 15 times longer than the same machine when rebooted into XP with the same fixed IP settings? jcp
On Saturday 25 June 2005 00:20, John C. Plummer wrote:
Anders, Thanks for the input. Any thoughts on what could be causing excessive browser response times, about 3 times as long as IE in XP under vmware and 15 times longer than the same machine when rebooted into XP with the same fixed IP settings? jcp
I see you are using suse 9.1, and if I recall correctly, there were issues with IPv6 in 9.1 Try this: edit the file /etc/modprobe.conf and add the line install ipv6 /bin/true save, run depmod -a and then reboot (yes, sadly you need to reboot. At least I've never found another way to unload the ipv6 driver) and see if that makes things better
On Friday 24 June 2005 19:12, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Saturday 25 June 2005 00:20, John C. Plummer wrote:
Anders, Thanks for the input. Any thoughts on what could be causing excessive browser response times, about 3 times as long as IE in XP under vmware and 15 times longer than the same machine when rebooted into XP with the same fixed IP settings? jcp
I see you are using suse 9.1, and if I recall correctly, there were issues with IPv6 in 9.1
Try this: edit the file /etc/modprobe.conf and add the line
install ipv6 /bin/true
save, run depmod -a and then reboot (yes, sadly you need to reboot. At least I've never found another way to unload the ipv6 driver) and see if that makes things better Anders, Thanks. Runs at least 3 times faster and on Friday evening. jcp
On 6/24/05 5:17 PM, "John C. Plummer"
Most assuredly if it takes this long, it is a DNS issue. Check your hosts file and if you are not running a DNS server, put in your ISPs DNS.
Also, you you have your gateway in SUSE set up for the internal IP address of your Linksys? Typically 192.168.1.1
-- okay Hi okay, Sorry to be so dense. I tried to research DNS on the web and have read a lot about DNS, mainly servers, before bothering you all again. My LAN side is 4.18.22.142. Our former network guru liked that and all
On Wednesday 22 June 2005 19:31, okay wrote: the Windows boxes work with that gateway. The WAN is DHCP to the cable modem. If I type 4.18.22.142 in a browser URL, it asks for a Linksys login. Anyway, I was trying to determine what exactly to put in the /etc/hosts file. My ISP is www.atlanticbb.net. The host command shows its IP address to be 208.197.227.20. I put that in the hosts file with the URL in the hostname column and rebooted to no avail. I could put the DNS IP addresses in that are under the TCP/IP DNS entries and show in the /etc/resolv.conf file on a nameserver line. However, I'm not sure what to enter as the hostname for those 2 addresses. A DNS server (named) is not running. Could I ask what exactly goes in /etc/hosts for the ISP's DNS? Thanks. jcp
Your firewall has two IP addresses. One external, one internal. What happens if you type 192.168.1.1 in a web browser? If I understand this right, you have a cable modem, then a Linksys router/firewall? Is the cable modem set to give out IP addresses via DHCP? Is the Linksys also set to do the same? (that's asking for trouble) It's easier to have one DHCP server. If you do have the two items...each one has two IP addresses. What is the internal IP of _each_ one? You must have at least one class C address in your mix. (if it was me, I would turn off the DHCP server on the cable modem, and have it give out one static IP... If I'm on the right track, let me know and we can go on from here- -- Thanks, George ``One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know,'' ``Animal Crackers,'' 1930.
On Friday 24 June 2005 23:39, suse_gasjr4wd@mac.com wrote:
You must have at least one class C address in your mix.
Why? There are actually people who get multiple real IP addresses. It's not as if it's a requirement by the technology to use NAT and private IP ranges
On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 18:59 -0400, John C. Plummer wrote:
I couldn't find an answer to this by research. If you have a recommended research resource, I'd appreciate learing it. I have SuSE 9.1, lots of memory, running on a dual boot Pentium attached via a Linksys router to the cable modem. The IP settings are fixed: IP is an internal address 4.18.22.130 default gateway 4.18.22.142 the Linksys subnet mask 255.255.255.192 primary & alternate DNS provided by ISP If I boot in XP which I no longer use, IE browses virtually immediately with the same fixed settings. If booting under SuSE, all browsers are painfully slow, typically > 30 secs I also have XP loaded under vmware (why the dual boot is not needed). IE under vmware loads a typical page in about 10 secs. Same fixed IP settings except the assigned IP is .136. I'm obviously missing something but can't determine what. Any assistance would be appreciated. Thanks, jcp
Are these the settings for the WAN interface or the LAN interface? Generally the LAN interface on a linksys router is set to 192.168.1.1 which would mean you will need to set the PC's to 192.168.1.X/255.255.255.0 with the default route set to 192.168.1.1. The WAN interface would be the address/subnet assigned by your ISP. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge
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