What's the MAC address for the DG? What does 'arp -a' reveal while a
successful ping is going on, and after it fails?

Kurt

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 08:01, Eric Brouwer <[email protected]> wrote:
> The default gateway is actually 192.168.0.101.  When you experienced this
> issue, was just one station affected, or all?  If I ping the same DG from
> other stations, I do not experience the timeouts.
>
> Thanks!
>
> On Mar 30, 2010, at 10:58 AM, Glen Johnson wrote:
>
>> Maybe a wild shot, but we had this problem once.
>> Is the default gateway 192.168.0.1?
>> Vendor brought in a DVR with had a static ip configured to that same.
>> Chased that one down for quite a while.
>> Could be someone brought in a wap or other device with same ip as the
>> default gateway.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Eric Brouwer [mailto:[email protected]]
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 10:16 AM
>> To: NT System Admin Issues
>> Subject: Strange network issue
>>
>> Good morning,
>>
>> I'm having a very odd networking issue with one computer in the
>> office.  The machine in question is an HP box running XP Pro and is
>> used for video editing.  When the editor tries to access network
>> resources, he sometimes loses his network connection and his process
>> basically locks up.  This happens during simple file transfers through
>> Explorer.
>>
>> Here's where it gets weird...
>>
>> I started a continuos ping (ping -t) to the file server in question,
>> and everything looks great.  No lost packets at all.  I then ran the
>> same ping to the default gateway and I'm seeing a lot of Request time
>> outs.  I'd say 10-15% of the ping requests fail.
>>
>> Any idea why I'd have trouble pinging the DG, but not a resource on
>> the other side of the DG?
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Eric Brouwer
>> IT Manager
>> www.forestpost.com
>> [email protected]
>> 248.855.4333
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>
>
> Eric Brouwer
> IT Manager
> www.forestpost.com
> [email protected]
> 248.855.4333
>
>
>
>
>
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