On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Aaron Griffin<aaronmgriffin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Are you sure this is related to this machine? With this issue and the > resolv.conf issue (it being empty) you reported, my gut says something > is whacked with your router. my router doesn't provide my dns I have a dns server running locally (which is why dhcpcd isn't supposed to overwrite resolv.conf). the fact that the packet loss immediately went away when I downgraded and I didn't have a problem until I actually loaded the new kernel. (my router is an linksys wrt54gl running openwrt 8.09.1) -- Caleb Cushing http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com