Kevin Tambascio wrote:
> I looked in the list of changes from 2.1 to 2.1.1, and
> it didn't look like there was anything that would
> solve this problem.
I've found that X does strange things when it can't communicate with its
gateway. With only one machine, I don't know that there's anything that
you can do to get around that except for:
route del default
Then you should get your speed back. You'll have to add the default
route back in once your DSL comes back up. Ahhh, but how do you know if
your DSL comes back up if you essentially have disabled networking? Not
a good answer. Depends on what's more important for you, speed or
networking (when it's up).
If you had another machine, you could make that other machine a
masquerading box or a NAT box (public external to private internal,
which is nearly the same as masquerading for only one box). This would
allow you to set the gateway of your Linux box to the IP address of the
masq/NAT box. You will always be able to reach your gateway (masq/NAT
box), even if the masq/NAT box can't reach your ISP's gateway.
As long as you're not hitting DNS, you should see no slowdowns in KDE.
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