Re: network woes

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Author: Trent Shipley
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To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: network woes
Eric Shubert wrote:

> Trent Shipley wrote:
>
>> Somewhere my connection to the Internet is borken. Load times take
>> forever. It doesn't seem to effect the wireless client routers, but I
>> have had trouble on both the wired machines under Ubuntu 9.10 and
>> Windows Vista. Sometimes the Linux machine effectively looses
>> connectivity with the Internet. It comes back if I log out of my X
>> session and log back in ... most of the time. I have a firewall router,
>> but effectively no household LAN since I've been too lazy to really
>> figure out how to configure the Ubuntu desktop machine as a primary
>> domain controller, then adjust it's firewall to suit.
>>
>>
>> I'd like an idiot friendly tool to help track this problem down,
>> preferably on the Linux machine which seems to experience the problem
>> most consistently.
>>
>> Baring a GUI tool friendly to mortal users, I am not above using the
>> @#$% command line and a text editor.
>>
>>
>> I am not too network savvy. I have to look up the layers of the OSI
>> stack every time. What is a reasonable diagnostic or fault tree for
>> approaching my symptoms.
>>
>> It is also worth noting that this problem seems to date back to
>> precisely when I upgraded from Ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10.
>>
>>
>
> I'd start with the tracert command.
>
>

Konqueror finds no info or man page for tracert. tracert was not found
in any package name or description using KPackageManager or Synaptic.
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