On Aug 16, 2009, at 12:10 PM, Ed Warner <edwarner99 at yahoo.com> wrote: >> Message: 11 >> Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 18:26:07 -0400 >> From: Ross Walker <rswwalker at gmail.com> >> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Interupted Internet Service >> To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> >> Cc: "centos at centos.org" >> <centos at centos.org> >> Message-ID: <303357D2-54F3-4939-8783-D99C867B5FAC at gmail.com> >> Content-Type: text/plain; >> charset=us-ascii; >> format=flowed; delsp=yes >> >> On Aug 15, 2009, at 5:20 PM, Ed Warner <edwarner99 at yahoo.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Everytime I see this in the logs my internet access >> stops for about >>> 5 minutes. Nothing else follows in the logs. I have >> DSL. Any ideas? >> >> Try setting the MTU on the DSL interface to 1492 if you're >> doing PPPoE. >> >> If not, get a better Internet provider. >> >> -Ross > > My MTU is already set to 1492. Can you explain the relationship > between internet access and the log entries? > > Aug 15 17:14:56 bonsai gconfd (root-6095): starting (version > 2.14.0), pid 6095 user 'root' > Aug 15 17:14:56 bonsai gconfd (root-6095): Resolved address > "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only > configuration source at position 0 > Aug 15 17:14:56 bonsai gconfd (root-6095): Resolved address > "xml:readwrite:/root/.gconf" to a writable configuration source at > position 1 > Aug 15 17:14:56 bonsai gconfd (root-6095): Resolved address > "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only > configuration source at position 2 Those are just debug messages from the gconf database routines that save your preferences. I doubt they are actually related to your Internet communications problems. It's either an issue with the ISP or your pppoe configuration. -Ross