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
>>
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