Hi Rob,

> Eric,
>
>
> -I can ping other hosts. Just not hosts on the network in question.

Strange...
Do you have a drawing of the network and how the LEAF router fits in? I
guess you use NAT?

> -I'm not sure what you mean by 'status of the interfaces'. They are up
> because I'm ssh'd into the box.
>
Ok, that's what I meant. I didn't know if you where using a console or sshd.

> I ping by ip address.
>
Ok, so no DNS issue...

My best guess would be connection tracking limit.

>
> Rob
>
Eric

>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Spakman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 3:43 AM
> To: Rob Ogle
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [leaf-user] What to do next time
>
>
> Hi Rob,
>
>
> That's indeed weird, especially because the issue seems to resolve by
> itself.
>
> Some things to check:
> -Can you ping other hosts when this issue happens?
> -What is the status of the interfaces when it happens?
> -Maybe the amount of connections tracked hit a limit, you can tune this in
>  /etc/sysctl.conf:
>
>
> # Set the ip_conntrack limit
> #net.ipv4.netfilter.ip_conntrack_max=65000
>
>
> There is some documentation about this in the guides, but unfortuanatly I
>  can only find the raw XML document:
> http://leaf.cvs.sourceforge.net/leaf/doc/guide/user-bering-uclibc/bucu-co
> nnt rack.xml?view=markup
>
> -Do you ping by name or ip-address?
>
>
> Eric
>
>
>> I've been having a weird situation occur sporadically. The monitors at
>> my  office will show customers as unpingable.
>>
>> When they are not pingable, we tracert it to see the point of failure.
>> The
>> issue usually shows in the next hop outside my T1 provider.
>>
>> Usually by the time I can check it the issue has resolved itself. My
>> T1 provider says there are no issues.
>>
>>
>> Tonight I caught the issue as it happened. I could not ping certain
>> customers from my office, but I was able to ping them from my home via
>> charter cable.
>>
>> After working with the T1 provider, it looks like it was my leaf box!
>> (??)
>>
>>
>>
>> While telnet'd into the T1 router (adtran), the T1 tech could ping the
>> ip's in question. After I booted the firewall, I was able to get to them
>> as well.
>>
>>
>> I checked dmesg, shorewall.log and messages. I saw nothing that stuck
>> out. I tried an arp -a. It took approximately 45 seconds to respond with
>> the info for the T1 router on eth0.
>>
>> So...if I catch this again, what should I check next?
>>
>>
>>
>>
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