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Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 15:49:14 +0400
From: Andrey Savochkin <saw@saw.sw.com.sg>
To: John paul R <jpr200012@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: dell inspiron 8000 eepro100 problems
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On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 01:04:12AM -0700, John paul R wrote:
[snip]
> sometimes it may take 10 hours to start. what happens
> is i lose my ability to connect to anything whether it
> be telnet, web browsing, ssh, etc. but i can still
> ping sites by ip address. if i am plugged in behind my
> router i can ping and connect to other boxes on my
> network (i've been browsing through a proxy on one of
> them while trying to figure out what the problem is).
[snip]

The fact that you can still ping sites by IP is important.
1. Check if it's DNS-related problem.
2. Check if packet size matters.

	Andrey