[CLUE-Tech] Networking question...

[Dave Hahn]

I saw this kind of thing, (latency was growing by an even amount each 
time).  I removed the routing table entries and re-inserted them and every 
was fine after that.  I didn't make any changes to the entries, but 
rewriting the tables seemed to do it.

At 11:52 AM 2/14/01 -0700, you wrote:

>I seem to be experiencing a network problem and I was looking for a little
>insight.
>
>I have a machine that AFAIK has been working beautifully for quite
>sometime (uptime was at 68 days and that was because I had to physically
>move the machine).  But this morning it started acting very strange WRT
>the network.  I had to eventually reboot the thing.
>
>The symptoms are that pinging loses the majority of packets and those that
>do come back report a constantly growing latency (growing by approximately
>4000 ms per ping update).
>
>I can log into the machine remotely and things seem responsive enough (I
>am typing this on that machine across the network).
>
>Also, when I look at the network activity, I am seeing quite a bit of ARP
>packets flying around.
>
>Does anyone have experience with this sort of thing?  Is it a case of
>hardware going on fritz (either the network card or a hub or similar)?
>
>Any feedback would be appreciated.  Thanks.
>
>Dale
>
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