Charles,
I've been having very similar problems with my ADSL connection here.
Basically, I can't get past the peer I'm connecting to. Because the problem
lies at my network provider, I can't tell for sure what's going on, but the
ISP reckons it's a RIP problem (systems further upstream from the peer stop
listening to broadcasts).
It isn't a line problem, IOW. It's possible that GTE could monitor the
gateway you're connecting to, so as to get a handle on what's happening.
Good luck with persuading them to do so though... :-|
-- Juha
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles Galpin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, 4 November 1999 02:20
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: intermittent network outage
>
>
> I'm hoping some of you network guru's will find an interest in this very
> strange (IMHO) problem.
>
> I have a linux box connected to the net via DSL (768/768) w/ a static IP.
> It had been running perfectly for months before my problems started
> sometime friday.
>
> I host some virtual domains which get http/ftp/smtp traffic, but none of
> it is high volume. Lately I have really just been telneting in to read my
> mail. What has been happening is that the conenction seems to be ok for
> very brief periods (in the order of seconds to a few minutes), with longer
> periods of no conenctivity inbetween (seems like a few minutes to as many
> as 10-15 minutes).
>
> When this happens, I run traceroute and see that the trace makes it
> successfully to the dsl gateway - the last hop before my box. When I
> called my ISP, they said everything was fine on their end and that it must
> be a line problem, and to call GTE who provides the DSL line and service,
> but not my internet access. Somebody came out to look at it last night,
> but I'm having the same problems today, and they never called to tell me
> they did/did not find a problem, or that they fixed it.
>
> BUT HERE IS THE KICKER.
>
> Whenever I am at home (evenings and thsi weekend) I don't see any
> problems. The connection seems fine. So this morning, I kicked off a
> download (happened to be caldera openlinuc iso :)) to test my theory that
> things work fine from the inside, and sure enough, I'm 120MB into the
> download and the connection has been up the whole time! It feels like my
> good old connection I have come to love.
>
> So, other than downloading openlinux in a while(1) loop :) does nayone
> have any suggestions to figure out what's wrong here
>
> ifconfig shows no errors on the interface.
>
> The only change of recent that I can think of is that I added another
> virtual domain last week, and added support for mail and web for it. Can't
> see how that could have broken things, but maybe someone can tell me?
>
> sorry this is so long
>
> charles
>
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