Can you grab some sniffs we could analyze? They may point towards a specific network issue depending on arps and responses. --j On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Robert Brown <rbrown at rawmindz.com> wrote: > 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 >> > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >