On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 21:32 +0530, Anil Kumar Sharma wrote: > > > On 4/2/06, Craig White <craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 08:19 -0700, Globe Trotter wrote: > > Dear list, > > > > I have been using Redhat9 and Fedora Core1-4, with help from > members on this > > list. Two days ago, I installed Fedora Core 5 and everything > came up smoothly. > > Though the booting and shutting down is very slow. However, > I have a serious > > problem, which I can not figure out at all. > > > > I can not access most sites on the web, using firefox or > wget. These sites > > include mail.yahoo.com, and most importantly www.google.com, > > www.fedora.redhat.com. Mauriat Miranda's installation notes, > among the ones I > > tried. stanton-finley.net is however accessible, but not all > the sites he > > mentioned. Can someone please tell me what is going on? > Where to look? > > > > I am using a Dell Latitude C840, with 512MB RAM. I am on an > ADSL modem (Qwest > > Actiontec GT701-WG) which may be the problem, but am indeed > very confused, > > because things "worked fine" two days ago. The modem > theoretically supports > > linux, and my ISP does, I know that. Though they are not > very learned, given > > that they probably field very few commands from Linux > customers. > > > > Anyway, I have SELinux enabled to enforcing, and my router > firewall switched > > off. I have had this setup for a while. > > > > I don't know what other information to provide, or where to > look. Can someone > > please help? > > > > (By the way, I am typing this e-mail on my old nemesis, > Windoze XP, in case you > > were wondering....) > > > > Many thanks and best wishes, > > Trotter > ---- > SELinux issues will show up in /var/log/messages and in dmesg > > I would suggest that you try turning ipv6 off first... > > add the following to the bottom of /etc/modprobe.conf and > reboot to see > if it helps: > alias net-pf-10 off > > > CG, Thanks a lot, > It works, and works. > Now please tell what it means or where to read further on this. ---- google it I would guess. all you did was shut off ipv6 Craig
