Greetings. I have finally got my Linux box connected to our ISP and basically working doing masquerading amongst other things. Not through problems, just lack of time on my part. (Or on my hands.) Slackware Linux 3.4, kernel 2.0.33 (compiled with IP_MASQUERADING etc. etc.), um, pppd 2.2.0 etc. The rest is a standard Slackware 3.4 distribution. Running on a 486DX4/100 16M RAM, 38400 modem. During tests the CPU was idle about 97% (according to vmstat). The client is a Windows 95 pc with the Linux box configured as the default gateway and dns. Eventually about 8 PCs will be connected to the internet via the Linux box, internet usage is not huge tho. DNS works fine. pppd works fine. Email works fine. ftp works fine (provided I load the appropriate module :) http (using Netscape and Internet Explorer) works fine ... but ... after a while, usually around 15 or 20 minutes, loading web pages will slow to a crawl. At first response is fine, the modem lights flash and there is lots of receiving. But after this there is no activity. Occasionally the send light flashes. Minutes pass, then the receive light flashes a couple of times. According to Netscape transfer speed is something like 9 bytes/sec, that's just before the transfer stalls. At the same time tho, other things like ftp, traceroute, pings, emails still seem to work fine. MTU is 1500, ftp transfers of megabyte files happens very quickly and very smoothly. Any ideas about what might be going wrong and/or what I can do to fix it are more than welcome. tia Dave --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For daily digest info, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
