Yeah, that was my initial thought. Sudden network flakiness, outta the blue, on an otherwise normally functioning network, in my experience, has often pointed to a bad switch. Probably the easiest thing to rule out. Rob On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 2:37 AM, Jeremy <tclug at lizakowski.com> wrote: > > Perhaps the internal switch/hub is flaking out, but the embedded *nix chip is > ok. Overheating of the router? Noisy line voltage? Or it could be a blown > capacitor or other HW issues. > > It might be easiest to try another router, or replace it with a hub/switch and > see if the local net is ok. Or, put the local net on a switch that feeds > into the router, so that local traffic never touches the router. > > Jeremy > > > > On Saturday 26 July 2008 11:00:36 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. >> >> I need some tools to try and figure that out. I've tried wireshark but I >> see nothing unusual there. >> >> Anyone know any good tools or have any ideas? This is kinda driving me >> nuts! >> >> >> -Yaron >> >> -- >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >