Again, thanks to all those who provided me with advice regarding a modem that would refuse to move traffic in a timespan that started at 9 days and closed in to about 30mins. For those interested the problem went away after Telstra moved the connection to another router. I have another fairly identical machine connected to this router which has never given me a problem over three years so it sounded like a reasonable test.
Before we did this I tried numerous settings on the modem including disabling compression and dropping the speed then I swapped out the modem and had the phone line tested all with no luck. The Telstra techs were very helpful and had a good point that the hundred or so other permanent modem connections on that router were not experiencing the same problem but it certainly is sus that moving off that router cleared up the problem completely. I am seeing something else unusual now that someone here might be able to answer. The Telstra tech swears that he's set up the new connection like any other connection but admits that he hasn't seen the following before either. It worries me as it appears that some kind of redirection is happening and if that is the case I wonder about what will happen when they give our old ip address to someone new. When I ping the server that was just moved to a new router from my home Linux server I get the following response: PING adminserver.sscs.org.au (203.48.63.65) from 139.130.12.155 : 56(84) bytes o f data. >From gw.civ6.Canberra.telstra.net (139.130.12.129): Redirect Host(New nexthop: s ouths4.lnk.telstra.net.12.130.139.in-addr.arpa (139.130.12.148)) The system log also has the following entry whenever I ping the remote server: Advised path = 139.130.12.155 -> 203.48.63.65, tos 00 (the 139 ip address is my networks telstra address and the second ip is the remote server) And the following entries end up in the system log of the remote server as well: Oct 21 12:13:32 adminserver kernel: Advised path = 203.48.63.65 -> 203.37.53.86, tos 10 Oct 21 12:13:32 adminserver kernel: Redirect from 139.130.12.129 on ppp0 about 139.130.12.155 i gnored. I'm wondering if I get these messages because both servers are now on the same router as I've never seen them before? Can anyone tell me if this is normal and if not, what do I tell the Telstra techs about the configuration so they understand what needs to be done? Cheers. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Darrell Burkey @ Home Canberra, ACT -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
