Hello Mikey, > Is > there any good way to isolate/identify what is causing > this?
It could be many things. From congestion of the network to bad programming. If you are sure the problem is with the net, discover if it's half or full-duplex. If it's half-duplex, go to your hub or switch and discover if there are too many collisions going on (there should be a yellow or orange light flashing everytime a collision happens). Try using a sniffer or a traffic analyzer to find out how much bandwidth is being used. If there's enough bandwidth left, there are no collisions going on, it could be a computer set up problem (MTU etc). > What would happen when the line is cut during > transmission? IS there any particular timeout error > need to be looked for? No. If the line is cut during a transmission, the receiver won't be able to check things like checksums with an incomplete packet. So, it will drop it. (I'm not sure if it won�t send out an icmp message with parameter problem. But I think not.) Rodolpho -- Rodolpho H. O. Eckhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cel: 11 9126-9107 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
