On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 09:35:08PM +1200, C. Falconer wrote: > The easy answer is to remove dialup networking from her computer. > > This is because brain-dead MS software can't be told to set the ethernet > card as the primary default route - instead it believes that 192.168.0.0/16 > is out the ethernet, but the default for anything else should be out the > modem.
done. yet her browser is STILL very slow on the uptake. (sometimes 'you have no internet connection' other times just a spinning IE logo with a blank window.) she says it's only after several hours of 'off' time, say, on the first boot-up of her day. yet my mac connection, using the same linux setup, goes great guns. (occasionally i see evidence of constipated network--and pressing a browser reload usually does the trick.) mac is 192.168.1.100, win is 192.168.1.200, everything else (from the perspective of the linux box at 192.168.1.1) is equal. > Finally - get someone to portscan your IP from outside your network... > that'll tell you what ports you have open. Don't skip this step... it'd > not be smart at all (speaking as someone who did skip it once) similar to the service offered at http://grc.com/ ? > ---------- > From: Will Trillich[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 15 June 2000 4:31 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: [OT] linux w/mac client ok: linux w/windows client ugh--? > > i'm in a mixed marriage. i'm mac, my wife is windows > and we now have a new member on the team, of course: > debian linux. works like a champ! > > but this is a very odd situation. > > in my home i've got linux acting as firewall, routing > thru cablemodem/microwave wireless to connect to the > world. i use the 192.168.*.* subnet within the house > to assign numbers: i'm 1.100, she's 1.200, and linux > is 1.1, and all works fine from my mac. > > but when my wife cranks up her computer and launches > exporer it says she has no internet connection and > "would you like to work offline?" starting a dos > window we try 'ping pacific.net.au' just for fun, > and the linux nameserver correctly looks it up and > the pings march across the screen. (this is from her > msdos prompt, not a telnet session to linux.) so her > setup seems okay, but outlook express, aol and > explorer all refuse to cooperate for minutes on > end. after quitting/relaunching or stopping/reloading > a webpage finally comes up and then all is well. > > i checked to see that her nameserver/gateway/tcp/lan > settings were just like mine (except for the last > number on the 192.168.1.* of course), yet this persists. > > even bewilderingly vague clues would be much appreciated.
