Hello again,
The problem occurred again, I was not able to access the internet for almost an hour. so I tried the tests you described: TEST1: Try pinging to a real IP address instead to eliminate any DNS problems. I tried to ping 66.102.7.99 (www.google.com) from the gateway machine: PING 66.102.7.99 (66.102.7.99): 56 data bytes ^C --- 66.102.7.99 ping statistics --- 85 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss TEST2: Further try pinging to an IP of the "company's network" PING 172.17.10.54 (172.17.10.54): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 172.17.10.54: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=3.414 ms 64 bytes from 172.17.10.54: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=0.717 ms 64 bytes from 172.17.10.54: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=0.807 ms 64 bytes from 172.17.10.54: icmp_seq=3 ttl=255 time=0.799 ms 64 bytes from 172.17.10.54: icmp_seq=4 ttl=255 time=0.821 ms 64 bytes from 172.17.10.54: icmp_seq=5 ttl=255 time=0.815 ms 64 bytes from 172.17.10.54: icmp_seq=6 ttl=255 time=0.807 ms 64 bytes from 172.17.10.54: icmp_seq=7 ttl=255 time=0.926 ms 64 bytes from 172.17.10.54: icmp_seq=8 ttl=255 time=0.781 ms ^C --- 172.17.10.54 ping statistics --- 9 packets transmitted, 9 packets received, 0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.717/1.099/3.414/0.820 ms TEST3: In case ICMP is somehow blocked along the lines, try telneting to port 80 of a web server on the Internet. Sorry, I don't know how to do this, and by the time I was trying to find out how, the internet was back again. I found something interesting that I quite couldn't understand. As I described before, we have 2 LANs at the office, one for the Company to access the internet and other machines in the company, and one local network for our team's development purposes. the 2 are connected via a gateway running freeBSD. Obviously, The gateway machine has 2 network interfaces. The interesting thing is that when I plug my machine to the company network directly I was able to access the internet normally. But the gateway itself couldn't! could this be a problem with the gateway itself or an external problem from the main company server? could it be that the company server is blocking our gateway for sometime because it has too many requests? I Appreciate your feedback and thanks in advance. Mohammad K. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jolug" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups-beta.google.com/group/Jolug?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
