Hello.

I have a dial up internet connection which uses a serial modem. I start the dial up process with 'ifup ppp0', it dials and connects fine.

The problem I see is after about 5 mins my desktop only starts to run extremely slow and not respond. Then the icons dissapear. I can still run progs from a terminal or command line, just the desktop gui seems to stuff up. I might connect to the net, double click my home folder on the desktop, and then I won't get anything for 20 -30 mins. As soon as I disconnect from the internet, the desktop comes back and everything works great.

I first thought it was cuz I was using a very old machine. But it is doing it on a P4 3.06 with 512MB RAM.

I'm using RH9.0 with standard bluecurve.

Anyone seen anything like this?

Thanks
>Craig

it's probably going to be a problem with /etc/hosts

when you connect does your hostname change.

Your hostname needs to be in /etc/hosts

Hello,

When I connect my /etc/hosts file stays the same, my resolv.conf file does change though.

/etc/hosts
# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost

/etc/resolv.conf
nameserver 203.56.246.6
nameserver 203.23.236.69


The hostname of my PC is still localhost.localdomain, I haven't changed it yet.

What should I be changing?

Thanks
Craig

after connecting run the command hostname and see what you get

Hi David,

Sorry for taking a while to reply. After I connect I run 'hostname' and get localhost.localdomain as the output.

I'm not sure what it is supposed to be, or what I should be setting it to.

Thanks for your help on this.

>Craig

I would say that it seems to be setup correctly,

try this, change the hostname and add it to /etc/hosts and see if the problem is corrected


I have mine setup like this

`hostname zeus`


/etc/hosts

127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost zeus



A lot of people have said do not add your hostname to the loopback interface, however my ip address changes all the time on this laptop, and it works.

If you want to you can put in your ip address your isp gives you and hostname.

If that does not correct it then we may need to look at the ppp/options

Thanks David,

I'll try it out.

Thanks for your help

>Craig