On Jul 26, 2008, at 11:00 PM, Yaron wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> I'm having some bad network flakeyness, just came out of nowhere...
> connections between hosts on the local network are really bad, huge
> amounts of packet loss OCCASSIONALLY. Like suddenly you can't  
> connect to
> the DNS server. Or you're SSH'd onto a machine and suddenly THAT  
> dies...
> and then comes back.
>
> If I do pings I I get up to 50% packet loss.
>
> These is between all and every hosts.
>
> Except the router - perfect connectivity to THAT.


Without more intimate knowledge of your network topology, I'd guess it  
was wiring problems.  Bad ethernet cabling can be a culprit in these  
cases.

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Eric Crist