Boris Glawe wrote: > Hi, > > > My system: > Fedora 10 on an Athlon XP 2800+, with 3GB RAM and two onboard network > adapters ("Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8001 Gigabit Ethernet > Controller" and "nvidia Corporation nForce2 Ethernet Controller"). My > board is an Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe. > > My problem is an extremely slow websurfing experience. Though I have > an 6Mbit/s DSL connection, surfing feels like with an 56KBit modem. > There's almost no network traffic and almost no CPU usage shown in the > (gnome) system monitor. The data transfer hangs sometimes in the state > "looking up www.someURL.com" and sometime in the state "waiting for > www.someURLcom". So it's possibly not primarily a DNS problem. > > An other fact to mention is, that downloads are as fast as expected! > Only the loading of normal webpages is very slow! > > I've googled already and found some performance issues related with > ipv6. Many postings/threads recommended to disable ipv6 dns lookups in > firefox (about:config -> network.dns.disableIPv6;true), which did not > help. > > Others recommended to disable ipv6 completely: > > Though all my interfaces have ipv6 disabled (IPV6INIT=no in > /etc/sysconfig/networking-scripts/ifcfg-* most of them have an inet6 > address (controlled with ifconfig). ip6tables is also disabled > ("chkconfig ip6tables off" and "service ip6tables stop")! > > The next idea was to prevent the ipv6 module from being loaded into > the kernel. > Though I added the line > "blacklist ipv6" > to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist, the rebooted system had the ipv6 module > loaded into the kernel. The only way to disallow the loading of the > module was to add "install ipv6 /bin/true" to /etc/modprobe.conf > > After a reboot I finally had a system with no ipv6 modules loaded and > no inet6 addresses assigned to my network adapters. > > BUT: Web surfing is still as slow like as in the early days of the > internet. > > > > > So assume, that the enabled ipv6 protocol stack is not the reason for > my problem. Do you agree? > > > > > I have two ethernet interfaces in my machine. > > One is connected with my dsl modem, the other is connected with my > laptop (no switch, but a direct connection). My Laptop is still > running a Fedora 9 installation. > > I've configured my Fedora 10 Desktop to forward traffic between the > interfaces and to apply NAT masquerading for packages that are routed > from my laptop to the external DSL interface (which is ppp0). > > The amazing thing is: I do not have any performance issues with my > laptop! The connection is smooth and perfectly fast. The DNS server > (the same server, that's being used by my desktop) responds > immediately and webpages are being loaded within a second or two. > > > > I don't know what to do next! > > Do you have any idea??? > > > Thanks for any hints and ideas! > > Greets Boris > > > > Boris, Sounds like either a local routing issue on the "gateway" machine or a firewall issue. if you "traceroute" your DNS server on the "gateway" machine, what path does it take? If you turn off the firewall rules on that same machine, does anything change? If you try to "ping www.yahoo.com" and tcpdump the interfaces which interface do you see 1). dns traffic on and 2) icmp traffic (if it's going to the laptop and them coming back somehow then you've got a routing issue)? Kevin -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines