openSUSE 10.3 and internet problem

BLivori · 03-21-2008, 04:19 AM

Hello everybody,

I have just installed openSUSE 10.3 (and its great!). I've got a problem tough. After about approximately every 3 minutes my internet connection times out and even causes the other computer on the LAN to time out. When the connection is not working Kopete and XChat still work. I would like to solve this problem as it is frustrating and annoying for me and other people.

Please be aware that I'm an average/newbie linux user.

Thank you in advanced.

Here is some info:
- I'm on a router
- 2 computers are connected to the router (one with Vista Home Premium and the other WinXP/openSUSE10.3)
- Problem arises when on linux
- No one is downloading anything when this happens.

ping google.com.mt:

Code:

PING www.l.google.com (209.85.135.99) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from mu-in-f99.google.com (209.85.135.99): icmp_seq=1 ttl=246 time=73.3 ms

ifconfig:

Code:

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0A:E6:1A:08:B8
          inet addr:192.168.123.171  Bcast:192.168.123.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::20a:e6ff:fe1a:8b8/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:13041 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:12199 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:12329682 (11.7 Mb)  TX bytes:1867348 (1.7 Mb)
          Interrupt:5 Base address:0xdc00

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:322 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:322 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:20000 (19.5 Kb)  TX bytes:20000 (19.5 Kb)

framp · 03-22-2008, 04:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BLivori

After about approximately every 3 minutes my internet connection times out and even causes the other computer on the LAN to time out. When the connection is not working Kopete and XChat still work.

You start your Linux box - then ever 3 minutes a timeout occurs for both systems in your LAN (firefox times out?, i.e. the HTTP connection?) but kopete and xchat works still fine?

This might be a problem because ipv6 is enabled per default in OpenSuSE 10.3. In any case I suggest to disable ipv6 in your OS and FF.

BLivori · 03-22-2008, 06:19 AM

It doesn't make difference at all.

Any other suggestions?

Thanks.