very strange connection problem on FC5 installation

[Craig White]

On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 21:32 +0530, Anil Kumar Sharma wrote:
> 
> 
> On 4/2/06, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
>         On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 08:19 -0700, Globe Trotter wrote:
>         > Dear list,
>         >
>         > I have been using Redhat9 and Fedora Core1-4, with help from
>         members on this
>         > list. Two days ago, I installed Fedora Core 5 and everything
>         came up smoothly. 
>         > Though the booting and shutting down is very slow. However,
>         I have a serious
>         > problem, which I can not figure out at all.
>         >
>         > I can not access most sites on the web, using firefox or
>         wget. These sites 
>         > include mail.yahoo.com, and most importantly www.google.com,
>         > www.fedora.redhat.com. Mauriat Miranda's installation notes,
>         among the ones I 
>         > tried. stanton-finley.net is however accessible, but not all
>         the sites he
>         > mentioned. Can someone please tell me what is going on?
>         Where to look?
>         >
>         > I am using a Dell Latitude C840, with 512MB RAM. I am on an
>         ADSL modem (Qwest 
>         > Actiontec GT701-WG) which may be the problem, but am indeed
>         very confused,
>         > because things "worked fine" two days ago. The modem
>         theoretically supports
>         > linux, and my ISP does, I know that. Though they are not
>         very learned, given 
>         > that they probably field very few commands from Linux
>         customers.
>         >
>         > Anyway, I have SELinux enabled to enforcing, and my router
>         firewall switched
>         > off. I have had this setup for a while.
>         > 
>         > I don't know what other information to provide, or where to
>         look. Can someone
>         > please help?
>         >
>         > (By the way, I am typing this e-mail on my old nemesis,
>         Windoze XP, in case you
>         > were wondering....) 
>         >
>         > Many thanks and best wishes,
>         > Trotter
>         ----
>         SELinux issues will show up in /var/log/messages and in dmesg
>         
>         I would suggest that you try turning ipv6 off first...
>         
>         add the following to the bottom of /etc/modprobe.conf and
>         reboot to see 
>         if it helps:
>         alias net-pf-10 off
>         
> 
> CG, Thanks a lot, 
> It works, and works.
> Now please tell what it means or where to read further on this.
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google it I would guess.

all you did was shut off ipv6

Craig