From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Egqov-0003Hd-Vo for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 21:45:58 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jASLiOVr016700; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 21:44:24 GMT Received: from rwcrmhc12.comcast.net (rwcrmhc14.comcast.net [216.148.227.89]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jASLbpZK026560 for ; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 21:37:52 GMT Received: from [24.20.8.31] (c-24-20-8-31.hsd1.or.comcast.net[24.20.8.31]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc14) with ESMTP id <200511282137490140028ljte>; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 21:37:49 +0000 Message-ID: <438B78A3.20208@comcast.net> Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 13:37:39 -0800 From: Rob User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051015 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why is Gentoo so slow when internet is out? References: <1133211269.25761.6.camel@camille.espersunited.com> In-Reply-To: <1133211269.25761.6.camel@camille.espersunited.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.92.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: d8fbc9a2-5ffa-4198-9ce0-e51a8c014414 X-Archives-Hash: 59450ec6f6da2bcc3d2449c4745bf82f Michael Sullivan wrote: > Our cable internet service goes out frequently (and probably even more > frequently now that winter has come to OKlahoma.) When it goes out, > pretty much everything on my Gentoo system slows down. It's gotten to > where just to get an application (like gnumeric) to open I have to su - > to root and shut down /etc/init.d/net.eth0 until the Internet comes back > on. This morning the internet was out and I'd shut down net.eth0 and > then tried to run monodevelop and it refused to start giving me some > message about my PC's hostname not being set correctly in /etc/hosts. I > checked it and /etc/hosts was correct. Must just be a glitch with > monodevelop. My question is what is it about Gentoo that relies so > heavily on connecting to the internet? My network was running just fine > - just the connection between the cable modem and the internet was down, > but everything inside my router should have been fine... > I saw somewhere in portage a daemon that manages connection/disconnection from the network. I think it was for laptops. But now I don't know what it is called or where it is in portage. I wonder if it would work? Rob. -- ---------------------------------- Rob Lytle Home Page A Seti search for intelligent life in Central Pa. http://home.comcast.net/~europa100 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list