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Re: [LUG] D-link modem router problem

 

Are you using AOL? If so, ensure that you:

- disable ipv6 (for some reason)
- set your router's MTU to 1400
- set eth0 (or whatever) to MTU 1400 using ifconfig

I get speed problems when using Linux with AOL, and am trying to move
to someone else.

On 5/4/05, Grant Sewell <dclug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 4 May 2005 21:04:04 +0100
Mike Tidball wrote:

Hi everyone.
I recently went over to broadband using a D-link modem router.
I was running SUSE 9.2 at the time and the problem was I couldent connect to
the online update site.I was'nt too concerned as I was pretty much updated
and I was waiting for 9.3 to come out.
I have now done a clean install of 9.3 and have the same problem but also
Firefox and Mozilla wont connect to the internet.The funny thing is
Conqueror will and then sometimes after using Conqueror Firefox and Mozilla
will work.
The same goes for Thunderbird,it will only connect sometimes and after using
Kmail which seems to work.
The online update wont connect even after using Conqueror or Kmail.
I get the message    cannot fetch remote server list possible solution check
network connections.
Any ideas where to start,I can access 192.168.1.1 the routers setup from
Firefox.
I have tried turning off the firewall,that did'nt help.
The modem router works fine in windowsxp.The only setup needed for windows
is to tell it to automatically assighn ip address in the TCP/IP properties.
Is there such a setting in SUSE?

Mike Tidball

Yes, indeed there is.  Under YaST, choose the network configuration tools, and 
then change your IP address to be "assigned by DHCP".  However, your symptoms are 
(in my opinion) not necessarily that of an addressing problem - are you using your 
D-Link router as a proxy?  If so, then you will need to put in the proxy 
information into various things too (maybe YaST has an option for proxies?).

Grant.
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