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
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