i just started running slackware 10.0 a few days ago and its been a difficult switch from being a microsoft junkie to linux but its been worth it. linux performs so much better than windows ever has or ever will.

but my internet and other networking functions slow after very little use.

i can go through around five pages on the internet then it come to a screeching halt and i have to reboot before i can use the net again. this same problem is occuring with multiplayer games, i play for a few minutes and then i get disconnected.

I suspect that packet forwarding is the problem.

until i fix this im forced to reboot to xp to use the internet.

my internet comes to a screeching halt after i go through 5 or so webpages, or play multiplayer games for a few minutes.

Launch top and see what it reports about the cpu usage and memory. maybe it can give you a clue.

are you using an iptables firewall script (/etc/rc.d/rc.firewall)??

to disable forwarding:

echo "0" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward

but i'm not sure that's the cause of your issue...

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FYI IP forwarding should not cause this issue (what makes you think that it would, out of curiosity?). It sounds like a memory leak in something (although it would have to be part of the network stack, which seems unlikely), or the wrong driver, or a bad NIC.

Allow me to add some input here. I just installed SuSE 9.1 today. I used it for a while and I did notice that web page downloads were discernably slower than I was used to on my Windows NT installation. (I have a cable connection (through a hardware router), so I'm used to virtually instantaneous downloads).

The more interesting thing is - when I rebooted into NT and started up a browser, I found that download speeds were distinctly slower even there. This happens with any browser - Opera, Mozilla, IE. It is also the case with Outlook Express. Moreover the download is not as smooth as it used to be - a lot more jerky. It also seems to affect mouse movement when downloading - it is almost as if the mouse is getting a very low priority - with all the processor cycles being taken up by the data transfer. If I try to move the mouse while any transfer is taking place, the movement is very jumpy - a very unnerving effect.

Since this started happening soon after the Linux install, I can only conclude that it was caused by it. Could it have anything to do with some BIOS setting - changed by the Linux Kernel during installation - because that's the only connection I can think of between the two OS's.