Faultfinding and the conclusions we jump to

[Net Llama!]

On 06/04/2006 09:28 AM, Collins Richey wrote:
> On 6/4/06, Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:
>> On 06/04/2006 07:46 AM, Collins Richey wrote:
>> > On 6/4/06, James McDonald <james at jamesmcdonald.id.au> wrote:
>> >> OK so here I am re-installing my box with Ubuntu Dapper and I'm noticing
>> >> that web browsing performance is incredibly slow. So I immediately blame
>> >> Ubuntu ...
>> >
>> >>
>> >> So in the end my assumption is incorrect my new Ubuntu box is fine. It's
>> >> the ISP DNS1 that is porked.
>> >>
>> >> So after a judicious editing of the /etc/resolv.conf I'm fine
>> >>
>> >
>> > As an aside, I noticed early on with Ubuntu that obtaining a lease
>> > from my simple router takes longer that with any other distro, but I
>> > never dug into it. On boot up, up to half of the total boot up time
>> > was waiting for a lease. I don't think it's quite that slow now, so
>> > maybe they fixed something along the way.
>>
>> Perhaps a bug in the version of the dhcp client that they are shipping,
>> or maybe a bug in the NIC driver for the kernel?  What other distros did
>> you test with?
>>
> 
> I'm sure you're right; I've just been too lazy to check it out.
> 
> In recent years, only CentOS and FC3, and I don't believe I noticed
> that behavior with these distros.

Hrmm, since both of them are much older than Ubuntu (breezy & dapper at 
least), maybe its not dhclient or the kernel module.  *shrugs*


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