Can't surf the 'net

[Guest rubimon]

This one is weird. I've successfully loaded (well, successful for the most part) Mandrake 10.1. I'm having problems surfing the net. I can communicate with the router (DSL), and can see other computers in my LAN. I can ping external websites, with ms return times.

 

But, I can't routinely download web pages. *Sometimes* it works for the first attempt after starting the browser, and one time I actually got two pages. But then, nothing--it times out after a long time.

 

This occurs using both my eth0 ethernet card and my wlan0 wireless card. Both work under the windows setup on the same computer.

 

Ideas?

[Guest rubimon]

For the record, I'm going to try the suggestions at:

 

http://web.onetel.net.uk/~showerail/simple_net_setup.html

 

I'll post something on those results later.

[arctic]

install 2.4.27 kernel. there are still some bugs in the 2.6 kernel that affect some routers (e.g. d-link). the kernel.org team is trying to fix this.

Edited November 11, 2004 by arctic

[Guest rubimon]

The suggestions in the URL above seem to have worked after a hard reboot. Time will tell if that is stable.

[Guest j051034]

Hi I have a similar problem.

 

I am unable to view web pages (http). I have followed the above instructions but still have the problem. It is a fresh install of 2007 Spring and set up as a dual boot with Windows. I have IPTABLES disabled and the following network configuration;

 

[root@localhost ~]# ifconfig
eth0	  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:17:31:71:03:46  
	  inet addr:192.168.1.5  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
	  inet6 addr: fe80::217:31ff:fe71:346/64 Scope:Link
	  UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
	  RX packets:234 errors:213 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:213
	  TX packets:392 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
	  collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
	  RX bytes:26322 (25.7 KiB)  TX bytes:50907 (49.7 KiB)
	  Interrupt:21 Base address:0xdead 

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:216 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
	  TX packets:216 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
	  collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
	  RX bytes:16363 (15.9 KiB)  TX bytes:16363 (15.9 KiB)

[root@localhost ~]# route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination	 Gateway		 Genmask		 Flags Metric Ref	Use Iface
192.168.1.0	 0.0.0.0		 255.255.255.0   U	 0	  0		0 eth0
169.254.0.0	 0.0.0.0		 255.255.0.0	 U	 0	  0		0 eth0
127.0.0.0	   0.0.0.0		 255.0.0.0	   U	 0	  0		0 lo
0.0.0.0		 192.168.1.1	 0.0.0.0		 UG	0	  0		0 eth0

 

The odd thing is that I can;

• FTP from CLI and browser to sites
  
• Can resolve DNS
  
• Can ping Internet addresses and names
  

So from what I can tell I have network connectivity just cannot view HTTP pages.

 

Thanks for any help

Regards

Rob

[ianw1974]

Whats the network card? It isn't a realtek 8139 by any chance is it?

 

If so, suggest you disable IPV6 by editing /etc/modprobe.conf and adding:

 

alias net-pf-10 off

 

and reboot your system. If it's still failing, and you're using Firefox, then in the address bar, type:

 

about:config

 

then filter by ipv6 and then set it to true to disable IPV6 in firefox.

[Guest j051034]

Hi Ian,

 

The NIC is a SiS191 (Silicon Integrated Systems).

 

IPv6 has already been disbaled.

 

Cheers

Rob