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. --- Eric Crist