On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 08:02:03PM -0400, Richard wrote: > This is odd, (VERY) > when surfing its okay, however, when downloading like new iso image files, > or ftping... the ethernet connection seems to come to a crawl, then stops > (cold) (please note: in Window XP (oops) there was never a problem in > downloading. <little grin> > > Here is my snap of ifconfig -a > ----------------------------- > $ ifconfig -a > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:03:25:28:93:B3 > inet addr:24.92.160.221 Bcast:255.255.255.255 Mask:255.255.248.0 > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:576 Metric:1 > RX packets:159889 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:33 > TX packets:46346 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 > RX bytes:33793861 (32.2 MiB) TX bytes:3929165 (3.7 MiB) > Interrupt:50 > I presume that your cable modem is connected to eth0. Why is the MTU so low? Generally, for a device that connects via ethernet you have an MTU of 1492 or 1500. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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