Re: Networking problem


"Hal Murray" <hal-usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Your systems - your rules. I would suggest looking further into the
problem, and learning how to disable IPv6 on the systems. It's nearly
always a trivial task - the hard part is finding out which file to
kick. That way, you won't be inoperative next time it happens.

I'd go slightly farther than that.

Take notes of all the things you did when you installed your system.
That includes tweaks after it was installed and running for a while.
They don't have to be anything fancy, just enough to remind you want
you did. The idea is to have a checklist with enough info so you
can do it again without a lot of thrashing to figure out what you
had to do. For something like this, my notes would probably say:
edit /etc/whatever to turn off IPv6
If the file was big enough that it wasn't obvious, I'd include
the parameter to edit so I could search for it.



Additional info:

I turned off my DSL modem today to see what would happen

and when I turned it back on...my XP machines reset fine

but *none* of my Linux installations could connect other than to my own web
page and my ISP's email

Just as an example (Tried three different browsers) If I try to get to
Google, the page does not load


however I can ping my DSL modem fine

I can also ping Google...but the page does not load in a browser

I have reset my ethernet connection a number of times
and even tried turning off my firewall

Stumped!


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