JohnS <jses27 at ...> writes: > --- > Check out you networking stack. Like NIC Card settings with ethtool and > your dns like namserver settings in resolve.conf. If it is getting an > address by dhcp sometimes it want pull in the actual real dns servers. ethtool eth0 spake thus: Settings for eth0: Supported ports: [ TP MII ] Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full Supports auto-negotiation: Yes Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes Speed: 100Mb/s Duplex: Full Port: MII PHYAD: 0 Transceiver: internal Auto-negotiation: on Supports Wake-on: pumbg Wake-on: g Current message level: 0x00000033 (51) Link detected: yes They are reasonably fine. it is a static IP. > All will get is like a 192.168.0.x from the modem/router. Ifconfig ethX > will show you the amount of packets dropped also. Possibly a driver > issue with your nic? Could be many things you just have to go step by > step... > ifconfig eth0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:16:E6:96:CD:A8 inet addr:192.168.2.220 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::216:e6ff:fe96:cda8/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:3434000 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:1879546 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:2928267020 (2.7 GiB) TX bytes:550552465 (525.0 MiB) Interrupt:177 Base address:0xe000 But then yum install/update etc gives me reasonable speeds in the range of 100-120 KBytes/second and our network load is that much usually. 15-20Kbytes is ridiculous We have a DNS server (an AD server) Is it that something that wget puts out in the network that is not liked by our firewall? Regards Rajagopal