[KLUG Members] Internet speed

[Jason Edward Durrett]

Eric Beversluis wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason Edward Durrett"
> <jed at shackman.com>
> To: "The main KLUG mailing list." <members at kalamazoolinux.org>
> Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 12:41 PM
> Subject: Re: [KLUG Members] Internet speed
> 
> 
>> Eric Beversluis wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 11:41 -0400, Jason Edward Durrett wrote:
>>>>> It takes a large amount of time to do anything. E.g., sending a simple
>>>>> email from Evolution takes about 30 seconds and connecting to my mail
>>>>> server takes about 20 seconds when there is no mail. This doesn't
>>>>> happen
>>>>> when I'm using Windows (same machine). I get turnaround on
>>>>> send/receive
>>>>> in about 5 seconds and a new email gets sent in 5 seconds.
>>>>>
>>>> Check what you have in /etc/resolv.conf . Sounds like it could be a
>>>> name
>>>> resolution problem.
>>>
>>> Here's the file:
>>> ; generated by /sbin/dhclient-script
>>> search domain.invalid
>>> nameserver 192.168.254.254
>>> nameserver 192.168.254.254
>>>
>>> The url is that of the DSL modem. Is that what it should be?
>>
>> No - unless your modem is also a name server.  Your ISP should provide
>> you with the ip of a valid name server - check your windows network
>> config because it sounds like that already is correct.
>>
>> I wonder, however, how your machine is resolving any names at all
>> right now.
> 
> [ Comin' at you from Windows land, as I've messed up my Linux connection.]
> 
>
> 
> 
> What to do?
> --can I set up eth0 manually, using the command line?

Very easily:

ifconfig eth0 ip_address_of_your_machine

You probably have to add a route:

route add default gw ip_address_of_your_router

To make this permanent, [in a Debian environment at least] edit

/etc/network/interfaces

To look something like this:

iface eth0 inet static
        address 000.000.000.000
        netmask 000.000.000.000
        network 000.000.000.000
        gateway 000.000.000.000

Where 000 is the correct value for you environment.

You would then still have to fix your nameservers in /etc/resolv.conf.

> --can I rescue the gnome network settings option?
> 

Not sure.