Hi Folks,
I'm working in a corporate environment as a software developer. For as long
as I've been here my setup has been a Unix workstation and an NT PC, both
supported by an outsourced IT support company based onsite. Recently I came
up with a business-related reason to install Linux on the PC, but our
support people do not support Linux. I therefore did it myself (RH 7.2).
Despite the fact that I can no longer boot the NT partition (a problem for
tomorrow) it has gone OK. However, I have a wierd network problem.
Network configuration: DHCP (as is the windows install). I have an IP
address, netmask, broadcast address, etc. and can connect to all the
machines I need to - but at around 2-10 Kbytes a second. This is well below
the limits I am used to - several megs a second when connecting to my sun
box from my PC. What is wrong - network adapter driver (3Com 3c590, which
was automatic detected), or DHCP configuration? An ethereal session reveals
that my machine is making several requests / second - 25 or so - the vast
majority of which are ARP and DNS requests, the rest mainly loopback, DHCP,
browser, NBNS... Most of the DNS lookups are for addresses in my network.
Any ideas?
TIA,
Ciaran
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