I have been running Fedora Core 2 for several months now, and have no complaints, except for a weird connection problem. It seems that whenever I try to connect to the internet or another computer, it comes right back with host unavailable, or connection refused, or no route to host. This happens for about a minute, then I am able to connect fine after that. But if the computer is idle for several minutes, I get the same thing. it doesn't matter if I am using mozilla or just trying a ping from the shell. I've searched archives, and all over the net, to no avail. This isn't a dialup connection, and it is a permanent IP. Anybody have similar problems? or point me in the right direction. Thanks, Mike