Re: Cable Modem related questions

From: Grant Edwards (grante_at_visi.com)
Date: 07/20/04 

Date: 20 Jul 2004 19:15:46 GMT

On 2004-07-20, Jabali Pragya <jabali@XSPAMfreeuk.com> wrote:

> Since the cable connection was installed all applications
> including kde is taking just a bit longer to load. Once loaded
> I don't think they are running any slower than before.

The Ethernet connection takes longer than the USB connection,
or any connection takes longer than no connection?

How much slower? Is there something like a 5 second delay on
startup? If so, it's probably a DNS lookup failure of some
sort. Many applications attempt to do a reverse-DNS lookup to
find out their hostname.

> Is this normal or have I been intruded by a hacker? I have
> Iptable running,thus reasonably (I assume) protected.

Depends on how the tables are set up.

Personally, I wouldn't run without a dedicated, external
firewall.

> Secondly, I have win98SE running under win4lin. I don't
> normally connect to internet from win98se, but on rare
> occasions when the site won't run without windows specific
> plug-ins, I connect through the windows side. Do I need to set
> up another firewall for win98se or is it protected by Iptable
> ?

I think it depends on whether you're using the winsock driver
under Win98 or the other one (VLAN)? Under the winsock driver,
I think the windows machine is basically using the Linux
machine as an IP router, so the windows "machine" is OK if the
Linux machine is OK. I don't know how the other driver works.
Perhaps you should ask on the netraverse mailing list. 

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