Dropping packets??

Christopher White cwhite at softquad.com
Fri Feb 1 14:13:59 PST 2002


Have you tried pinging the other way?  I just did, and didn't see any packet
loss:

tophat:~# ping 63.113.184.226    
Warning: no SO_TIMESTAMP support, falling back to SIOCGSTAMP
PING 63.113.184.226 (63.113.184.226) from 216.210.204.210 : 56(84) bytes of
data.
64 bytes from 63.113.184.226: icmp_seq=0 ttl=245 time=381.029 msec
64 bytes from 63.113.184.226: icmp_seq=1 ttl=245 time=88.439 msec
64 bytes from 63.113.184.226: icmp_seq=2 ttl=245 time=87.309 msec
64 bytes from 63.113.184.226: icmp_seq=3 ttl=246 time=88.866 msec
64 bytes from 63.113.184.226: icmp_seq=4 ttl=245 time=88.196 msec
64 bytes from 63.113.184.226: icmp_seq=5 ttl=245 time=53.450 msec
64 bytes from 63.113.184.226: icmp_seq=6 ttl=245 time=53.401 msec
64 bytes from 63.113.184.226: icmp_seq=7 ttl=245 time=52.676 msec
64 bytes from 63.113.184.226: icmp_seq=8 ttl=246 time=52.514 msec
64 bytes from 63.113.184.226: icmp_seq=9 ttl=245 time=54.892 msec
64 bytes from 63.113.184.226: icmp_seq=10 ttl=245 time=52.699 msec
64 bytes from 63.113.184.226: icmp_seq=11 ttl=245 time=52.126 msec
64 bytes from 63.113.184.226: icmp_seq=12 ttl=245 time=54.012 msec
64 bytes from 63.113.184.226: icmp_seq=13 ttl=246 time=110.567 msec
64 bytes from 63.113.184.226: icmp_seq=14 ttl=246 time=107.325 msec
64 bytes from 63.113.184.226: icmp_seq=15 ttl=246 time=52.152 msec

--- 63.113.184.226 ping statistics ---
16 packets transmitted, 16 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/mdev = 52.126/89.353/381.029/78.138 ms

--Chris

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Wagner [mailto:chrisw at pacaids.com]
> Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 3:38 AM
> To: talk at nblug.org
> Subject: Dropping packets??
> 
> 
> I have a Redhat 7.2 Linux box running kernel 2.4.7-10 that I 
> have on a real
> IP to the net from UUNet/Worldcom through my Netopia 
> firewall/router.  The
> box is a fairly stock install of Redhat with a lot of junk left out.
> 
> It seems to be dropping packets like crazy..  If I reboot, 
> the problem goes
> away for a little while, then comes back after a day or so..
> 
> This is an old machine, it's a P100 with 48mb RAM and a small 
> HD.  It has a
> 3com Etherlink III 3c905b ISA NIC..  I'm wondering whether 
> the hardware is
> bad or whether I've configured my network settings improperly..  I did
> follow directions exactly for configuring my network on the firewall,
> though, so I'm puzzled..
> 
> For instance:
> -----
> [root at sparky root]# ping newbolt.sonic.net
> PING newbolt.sonic.net (208.201.242.18) from 63.113.184.226 : 
> 56(84) bytes
> of data.
[snip]
> --- newbolt.sonic.net ping statistics ---
> 75 packets transmitted, 19 packets received, 74% packet loss
> round-trip min/avg/max/mdev = 19.797/26.530/39.796/5.621 ms
> -----
> 
> Any ideas folks?
> 
> - Christopher Wagner



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