Yow!! its me agian.....i have away from ma pc 4 a while. but i have cme to the conclusion that i doubt th breakdown has to do with arp packets.Because i checked ethereal and most of the time when the connection deteriorated no arp transactions were taking place, just normal tcp. I aslo realisd that the arp packets were being sent at the begnning of the connection but generally stopped after a while, showing that i thibk that the arp has nothing to do with the deterioration (correct me if im wrong).i think probably it has to to do with my isp and modem configured for PPPoA rather than PPPoE, and knoppix 5.0 operating under PPPoE.it just a hunch im currently reading on the two to find out the diffence.Is there any way to check what PPP configuration i have in knoppix 4.02??
Again thanks a bunch