[ILUG] Re: konqueror slow with eircom dsl

[Marcus Furlong]

fuzzix wrote:

> Marcus Furlong wrote:
>> I'm using eircom broadband, the modem is a netopia 3340 also running
>> as a dhcp server for the home lan. The problem is mostly KDE programs
>>  (konqueror, kopete, kmail, knode) running very slow. For example, to
>> load www.google.com in konqueror takes about 60 seconds. Everything
>> on the windows machines works fine, And other programs (firefox,
>> ping) work fine too. Kopete doesn't manage to log on at all, neither
>> does kcheckgmail.
>> 
> 
> This is probably an ipv6 issue. You can test this out by disabling ipv6
> in KDE by adding the following line to your KDE startup script (which on
> this system is /opt/kde/bin/startkde):
> 
> export KDE_NO_IPV6=1
> 
> If you wish to disable ipv6 systemwide then add the following to
> /etc/modprobe.conf (If using a 2.6.x kernel):
> 
> alias net-pf-10 off

That's it! I had already disabled ipv6 in the kernel after checking tcpdump,
then recompiled everything without ipv6 support, and it still didn't work.
Took out all references to ipv6 in /etc/hosts and friends, and was pretty
sure I had done everything possible to disable ipv6! I guess not! Thanks
for that!!

Incidentally, does this mean that it's just the netopia that doesn't support
ipv6? (This system worked fine with ipv6 support before on many different
lans)

Marcus

PS. yeah CSLL