On Fri, 16 Nov 2007, Scott Ullrich wrote:
On 11/16/07, Joe Laffey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Weird thing is that I went and bypassed the pfsense box, and connect my
laptop directly to the network (highspeed, business class cable). If I
assign the laptop different IPs (within my netblock) I get different
results. With some IPs I can ping one site at 15ms, but if I switch the
IP then it is 450ms. Yet, some other hosts are pinging at 350ms no matter
what the local ip is.
I have seen this before. At my work we have a business class "cable
modem". In their infinite wisdom they activated a feature on their
network called "MAC address accountability" (don't ask, I have no idea
what this means) and our connection instantly started having major
issues with CARP type IP addresses. I could plug a Mac in and it
would be just fine. Sadly this took over a week and a half of my
life whereas the ISP was blaming my firewall. After staying on their
ass ensuring them it was not a firewall issue they finally resolved
the issue but it took the technical support folks to get in their car
and drive to the datacenter to get the very knowledgeable 4th level
folks off their asses and fix it.
This sounds very similar to the drama that I went through.
Uh Oh! That sounds like a major headache. I already have them claiming the
issue is not with their network. At first they seemed to claim that all of
their backbones were having issue with my IPs at the same time every
night. This was obvious rubbish. I finally realized that it was the RETURN
packets (thus traces to all the backbones would show it, since they all go
back in through one).
This wouldn't happen to be Charter cable, would it?
Do you have any more info at all that I could tell them to help figure
this out?
I have a new cable modem on the way today. If that does not fix it, then I
will have to bitch more...
Thanks!
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