Topic: internet woes

[Rob Leahy]

I have sucsessfully set an e-smith severr with one exception, internet access.

We are using an external 56k modem and e-smith is networked with several win 95/98 machines. I am just setting up an e-smith server to share and backup files and share internet access.

The system is as follows pent 166 132m mem 10G hard disc seagate dat backup and realtek based lan card.

We use a dial up connection for internet and have 2 external modems to choose from, one acer 56k the other a pragmatic.

All set up fine except a minor glitch with the dat drive, then found on the forum you had to do a manual backup first. So far so good!

We have 8 machines connected to the e-smith server using dynamic dhcp addressing and default gateway set to 192.168.1.1.

I cannot get the esmith to share internet correctly, it is very slow and then stops altogether. Whe ot stops I check the esmith server and it doesnt pass the internet communications test. i can ping from esmith and a client machine and vica versa!

Same result with both modems.

I have tried with esmiths proxy on and off. Any ideas, this is my last hurdle to getting the machine on the network!!!!!!!!

[William Wong]

can u quantify how slow it is ?
what kind of speed you are getting let's say downloading a file from a website.

and what kind of figure you have when you perform exactly the same download using a win98 machine directly connected to the modem ?

[rob leahy]

when it is working , about 0.9 to 2k a sec.
we use a prog called ishare to share our internet connection normally and get 3-5k a sec.
After a while esmith stops all together and web browsing and email doesnt work at all, although the modem is still connected.
The inbuilt internet test on the console doesnt work either. This happens with both modems (both external), but as i said i can still ping esmith so the networking side of things seems fine!!!

[Jochen Hoegerl]

If you are using a no name NIC in your e-smith this might be the problem.
These have sometimes a bad carddesign. You can test this by just
setting up an ibay (or using an existing one) put some html and downloadable
files in it and have your internal users to surf your esmith server heavily.
If you get the same probs.....buy a new NIC.

jochen