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I did a freash install of mandrake 8.0 and noticed something strange.
When I turn off my cable modem....my system slows down almost to the point
of where it seems it has locked up....but when I turn my modem back on
everything is fine again.

When I ran net_monitor, I noticed that my system seems to be constantly
sending and receiving packets.  Now I know this is not normal becuase this
didn't happen when I installed slackware.

Has anyone had any similar problems or know what might be causing this???

I noticed similar things with mandrake 7.2

Installed redhat 7.1 and everything is great.

Quote:> I did a freash install of mandrake 8.0 and noticed something strange.
> When I turn off my cable modem....my system slows down almost to the point
> of where it seems it has locked up....but when I turn my modem back on
> everything is fine again.

> When I ran net_monitor, I noticed that my system seems to be constantly
> sending and receiving packets.  Now I know this is not normal becuase this
> didn't happen when I installed slackware.

> Has anyone had any similar problems or know what might be causing this???

I don't suppose you're shutting down your network before you turn off
your cable modem? If I recall correctly, in mandrake you can do a
"/etc/rc.d/init.d/network stop" (as root).  It sounds like you're
running something which is constantly trying to do some sort of dns /
reverse dns lookup, or for all I know possibly dhcpd is tying up your
system.  Have you checked any of the process stats while this slow
down is occurring - seen which one is occupying so much of your cpu
time?

St.