aragon127
06-30-2005, 08:07 AM
Ok, been over a month now I'm still trying to get my network fixed. I have a fresh install of Ubuntu dual-booting on a machine with Windows XP. My network is a Sonicwall SOHO firewall/router connected via a cable modem connection. There is 1 other computer on my network. It's configured via NAT. My network works fine (although I'm having problems getting a server accessible to the outside world, but that's a different story) except for 1 major problem. Anytime I run a usenet binary grabber the network locks up and stops working. It doesn't happen right away but after 5 minutes or so it'll just stop. I can do a traceroute and find everything being routed right back to my own computer. Everything should be using the router as a gateway which it does normally, but at some point during newsgroup downloading it stops and sends everything back to my computer. I can't connect to any outside computer, whether I try a domain name or the direct IP address. I can still connect back to localhost using localhost, 127.0.01 or my internal lan address but I can't even get out to the router. This behavior only happens when using usenet tools. I haven't been able to duplicate the behavior using anything else. I've tried with multiple programs as well (PAN, newsbin-via wine, etc) so I don't believe they are the problem. The same computer has no problems if I boot into Windows though. Shutting eth0 down and restarting does nothing. The only way I can get the net back is to reboot. Anyone have a clue what I can do to troubleshoot this? I'm at my wits end. Thanks.