new machine - problems with gaim

Wed Jan 5 08:29:10 UTC 2005

Mark,

The messages below show that your system is trying to obtain an IP
address from a DHCP server. If this machine is situated on your LAN, I
would try giving it a static IP address (see
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and /etc/sysconfig/network). 

If this machine itself connects directly to the internet, it will try to
obtain an IP address from your ISP's DHCP server. It's possible that
when the DHCP server gives your machine an IP address, the lease time
(the length of time that your machine is allowed to keep the same IP
address) is quite short (maybe just a few hours). Once your lease is up,
your machine must go through the whole process of acquiring an IP
address again from your ISP's (or your LAN's) DHCP server hence you
experience the delay every now again whilst the DHCP client (your
machine) and the DHCP server negotiate a new IP address.

If you can, go for a static IP and see if this helps. The one thing that
does puzzle me re: your email below is that you say that you can still
browse the web even when GAIM is having trouble. If this is a DHCP
problem, no network services going out from your machine would be able
to work since at that time your machine would not have an IP address.

HTH

John

-----Original Message-----
From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com
[mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Mark Knecht
Sent: 05 January 2005 02:32
To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
Subject: new machine - problems with gaim

Hi,
   Well, here I am writing from my son's new machine. Turned out the
128MB it came with wasn't enough memory to open Open Office so I
bought an additional 256MB. However we're still having problems. He
uses gaim to chat with his friends, but when we start it up there is a
3-4 minute lag before the program will start accept text. I type into
it and it just sits for 3 minutes  before it works. Even after it
works it will once in awhile have these 3 minute lags again.

   At first I thought it might be the wireless networking having
trouble but the whole time gaim isn't working I can browse the web
just fine.

   I've shut off iptables using chkconfig --del.

   Any ideas what's causing this? I don't know where to look. There
are no special messages in dmesg.

   In /var/log/messages I do see some strangeness:

 Jan  4 18:26:04 Christmas dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on sit0 to
255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 19
Jan  4 18:26:04 Christmas dhclient: send_packet: Network is down
Jan  4 18:26:23 Christmas dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on sit0 to
255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
Jan  4 18:26:23 Christmas dhclient: send_packet: Network is down
Jan  4 18:26:27 Christmas dhclient: No DHCPOFFERS received.
Jan  4 18:26:27 Christmas dhclient: No working leases in persistent
database - sleeping.
Jan  4 18:28:47 Christmas su(pam_unix)[3284]: session opened for user
root by matt(uid=500)
Jan  4 18:30:04 Christmas dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on sit0 to
255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
Jan  4 18:30:04 Christmas dhclient: send_packet: Network is down
Jan  4 18:30:12 Christmas dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to
255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
Jan  4 18:30:12 Christmas dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on sit0 to
255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 18
Jan  4 18:30:12 Christmas dhclient: send_packet: Network is down

   This sort of stuff is repeating a lot.

thanks in advance,
Mark

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