Chris Santerre wrote: > I had everything working great. Perfectly! So I move the servers I'm working > on into the computer room, hook them up to the KVM switch, and boot them all > up. Things look ok, so I go to a machine on the outside of this net > connection, and call up the web site that is now in my bridged / firewalled > dmz. Page dies! This had been working fine! > > Ping the server and get 58% packet loss!!! WTF?!? > > So now I go to the actuall bridge firewall machine itself. Ping the web > server that is bridged right off this machine. 53% packet loss. the two > servers in the DMZ ping eachother with no packet loss. The bridge/firewall > can ping any machine on the internet with no loss. So basically anything > going through my eth2 gets almost 50% loss every time! > > Now being worried, I pinged the internal net. I got a 12% loss. This doesn't > use bridging at all! Both eth2 and eth1 use the Tulip drivers. Are there > problems with these?? > > I checked with different cables, same problem. Looks like somehow during > shutdown/move/reboot eth2 went belly up. 1st time I've run into this at all. > So, I figured I'd asked to see if anyone has ever had a packet loss issue > with bridging. I doubt it is that. I'm going to try different drivers and or > nics tomorrow.
Do your interfaces show errors? (ifconfig -a) Any timeout messages in /var/log/messages? If you're attaching to a 100bt-FD (fixed) network, make sure you are auto-negotiating correctly.... Ben > > frustrated, > chris > _______________________________________________ > Bridge mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.math.leidenuniv.nl/mailman/listinfo/bridge > -- Ben Greear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <Ben_Greear AT excite.com> President of Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com ScryMUD: http://scry.wanfear.com http://scry.wanfear.com/~greear _______________________________________________ Bridge mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.math.leidenuniv.nl/mailman/listinfo/bridge
