Hi:
For the benefit of people who are having this issue, I refer to
this thread. My internet connection had noticeable slowed down. Many posts back and forth. But I remembered the advise given by an LQer: try to remember what you did before the issue. What I did is to install a lot of services last time I installed 12.0:
Code:
rc.bind BIND (Domain Name Server) server
rc.dnsmasq dnsmasq DHCP/DNS server
rc.inetd The BSD Inetd daemon
rc.ip_forward Activate IP packet forwarding
The cue to the puzzle I got it when looking at /var/log/messages. I did not like its look. Then, I booted with the first instalation disk, ran 'setup', and deactivated the quoted services. And ... all's well that ends well.
Kernel 2.6.21.5
Slackware 12.0