Slow Internet connection for Fedora 4

[Noel Hall]

Try re-running the internet connection wizard for the interface and see
if that solves the issue you are having.

Noel

On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 12:00 +0100, Ole Robert Hestvik wrote:
>      This ADSL line uses DHCP.
>      Connected to an other Fedora 1 machine I get:
> 
> [root at localhost root]# ifconfig -a
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:E0:00:85:A6:2F
>            inet addr:10.0.0.3  Bcast:10.0.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>            UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>            RX packets:270338 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>            TX packets:39878 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>            collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>            RX bytes:38095780 (36.3 Mb)  TX bytes:3933215 (3.7 Mb)
>            Interrupt:9 Base address:0x8000
> 
> lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
>            inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
>            UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
>            RX packets:963 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>            TX packets:963 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>            collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>            RX bytes:106017 (103.5 Kb)  TX bytes:106017 (103.5 Kb)
> 
>      While installing Fedora 4 the options Firewall and SELinux were not 
> selected. Can this have anything to do with the problem?
> 
> Noel Hall wrote:
> > I don't see an IP address in your ifconfig output for eth0.  Are you
> > using static IPs or DHCP to determine IP addresses?
> > 
> > My ifconfig output:
> > 
> > [root at genesis ~]# ifconfig -a
> > eth0    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:B0:D0:3D:39:91
> >         inet addr:192.168.1.100  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
> >         inet6 addr: fe80::2b0:d0ff:fe3d:3991/64 Scope:Link
> >         UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
> >         RX packets:2353 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> >         TX packets:1891 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> >         collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> >         RX bytes:1806538 (1.7 MiB)  TX bytes:263972 (257.7 KiB)
> >         Interrupt:185 Base address:0xd480
> > 
> > lo      Link encap:Local Loopback
> >         inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
> >         inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
> >         UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
> >         RX packets:158 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> >         TX packets:158 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> >         collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
> >         RX bytes:16295 (15.9 KiB)  TX bytes:16295 (15.9 KiB)
> > 
> > sit0    Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4
> >         NOARP  MTU:1480  Metric:1
> >         RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> >         TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> >         collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
> >         RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
> > 
> > 
> > On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 23:05 +0100, Ole Robert Hestvik wrote:
> > 
> >>Andy Green wrote:
> >>
> >>>On Monday 05 September 2005 21:59, Ole Robert Hestvik wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>>>64 bytes from vg.no (193.69.165.21): icmp_seq=0 ttl=246 time=3526 ms
> >>>>>
> >>>>>What does ifconfig say, particularly the various error counters?
> >>>>
> >>>>    At the moment the connection cannot be activated, and I am not able
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>/sbin/ifconfig -a
> >>>
> >>>should still have something to say.  But why is it this connection "cannot be 
> >>>activated"?
> >>>
> >>>-Andy
> >>>
> >>
> >>      Network Configuration->Activate fails, the error message is:
> >>
> >>Cannot activate network device eth0!
> >>Determining IP information for eth0...PING 10.0.0.1 (10.0.0.1) from 
> >>10.0.0.2 eth0: 56(84) bytes of data.
> >>
> >>--- 10.0.0.1 ping statistics ---
> >>4 packets transmitted, 0 received, +3 errors, 100% packet loss, time 2998ms
> >>, pipe 4
> >>  failed.
> >>
> >>      Sorry to say I am not familiar with these network functions. I 
> >>hope ifconfig can tell us something:
> >>
> >>[root at localhost oler]# ifconfig -a
> >>eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0A:9D:05:1C:63
> >>           BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
> >>           RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> >>           TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> >>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> >>           RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
> >>
> >>lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
> >>           inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
> >>           inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
> >>           UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
> >>           RX packets:3787 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> >>           TX packets:3787 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> >>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
> >>           RX bytes:5515768 (5.2 MiB)  TX bytes:5515768 (5.2 MiB)
> >>
> >>sit0      Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4
> >>           NOARP  MTU:1480  Metric:1
> >>           RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> >>           TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> >>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
> >>           RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
> >>
> >>Regards
> >>-- 
> >>Siv.ing. Ole Robert Hestvik  Vega 7503-6016 Trondheim 4150-8743
> >>Olex AS  www.olex.no
> >>
> >>
> > 
> > 
> Regards
> -- 
> Siv.ing. Ole Robert Hestvik  Vega 7503-6016 Trondheim 4150-8743
> Olex AS  www.olex.no
> 
>