Realtek 8139 ethernet very slow

[Andy Green]

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On Monday 31 May 2004 17:39, Eliot Stock wrote:
> I just bought a Hush PC with a Realtek RTL-8139 in it and put Fedora Core
> 2. The driver is 8139too and works out of the box but is very slow. It's
> inconsistent - some sites are faster than others, and DNS lookups seem

I suspect you are having ipv6 DNS-related problems.

Add the following to /etc/modprobe.conf

install ipv6 /bin/true

and reboot.   That'll kill ipv6 support.

- -Andy

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