System particulars:
User: newbie
K7S5A mb, AMD 1700+
Onboard LAN, sound
512MB RAM
Machine is on a Linsys switch which is then connected to a Linsys router. Other PC's on my net are Windows 2000, XP. Using Red Hat Linux 7.3 and set up for DHCP

Problem:
The LAN seems very slow. web browsing is very slow, on the bottom of the web page it says "resolving name...." for a long time (30-45 seconds), takes a minute or more to bring up a page. Also if I ping (say www.microsoft.com) the ping is REAL SLOW).

Reslve.conf shows the proper name servers. And I put in a hostname for this PC in HOSTS. Is there any known problems with this on board LAN interface? Should I disable the LAN and try another card?

One thing I am going to do is go to static addressing. Don't know if this will help.

I'm having no problems with mine, in fact over 20 of them...

The interfaces come up @ 100MBps on the switch/hub using modules sis900 & 8139too.

try 'dig www.somewhere.com' and see which dns server responds and the time it takes.
If you are dns'ing mostly external, modify /etc/nsswitch.conf to read "hosts: dns files"

Regards,
Peter