On Wed, 2001-10-31 at 13:39, mjn wrote: > I've got chage of a RedHat 6.1 box over on the U campus and ever since a > network outage yesterday we've seen strange behavior. > > We're running Netsaint for monitoring our NT, Novell and Linux machines > and after the network started to recover yesterday the RTA on the ping > which Netsaint does has been quite high, hovering between 60 and 89ms. > > When I do a straight ping from the cli i get mixed results. For the most > part I get return times of .5-.8ms but every so often we are seeing times > of 50-400ms(usually on the higher end of that) for no discernable reason. > I was thinking network problem but none of the other boxes on our subnet > are exhibiting the same symptoms. Ping scores follow below... > > I have restarted all network services since this started and bounced the > interfaces but the behavior persists. Does this sound like a problem or > am I just being too touchy? Anyone suggest anything (I'm defending my 355 > day uptime like a lion!) or seen anything like this before? I've seen this behavior when the NIC was on the verge of dying. I don't suppose you've tried swapping out the NIC, since you wanted to keep your uptime? Dave -- Beware the wrath of dragons, for you are crunchy, and good with ketchup. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020210/cf3ad69e/attachment.pgp