I'm running Fedora Core 2, and my internet connections are acting screwy.
I am getting timeouts when I try to connect to any IP address - most of the time, not all of the time. My other computer (running XP) has no problem.

I run traceroute and it seems that my packets are getting dropped somewhere down the line (I just get *s).

Whats going on? This happens with every site I connect to, and its not a problem with my isp (its happening farther down the line). Also, its not consistant - about 15% of the time, I can connect to these sites. And, like I said, my other machine isn't seeing any of these problems

Thanks in advance!
Jon

Welcome to LQ.

Just because you are getting a * doesn't neccesarily reflect a timeout, it just means that the host isn't returning any information. If the problem has just started I would ignore it and it will probably resolve itself.

I just realized (duh) that this started when I switched my dsl modem/router. I was using an actiontec 1524SU and now I've got a gt701-wg. I hooked the old one up and sure enough, everything worked! So what about my new modem/router or its configuration might cause my packets to get dropped?
I don't know why the problem would just go away, and I would like to be able to use the web on my linux box.
I called Actiontec and they said that they had had similar complaints with the old version of the firmware, but I have the most recent version. The guy thought that changing my hostname might help, but it didn't.

Any thoughts or suggestions would be helpful. Thanks!

I have the same problem with the same modem. Ive tried the newest firmware, different configs, and different drivers and had massive packet drop and timeouts on traceroute. I can't browser the web in linux at all (posting in windows, ugh).
This setup has worked on other routers (which don't work with the pppoa visi/qwest makes me use) with no issues what so ever.
I've tried SuSe 8.2 and 9.1.
edit: worth noting that this problem also applies to BT and FTP.
However there are no internal network problems, I can access shares, print servers, and internal webservers.

Fixed this by setting DNS manually. By default DHCP sends the gateway as the primary dns server, which for some reason or another does not egt along with linux. By setting DNS manually to my isps servers, all the problems went away.