On Wed, 2001-10-31 at 13:39, mjn wrote:
> I've got chage of a RedHat 6.1 box over on the U campus and ever since a
> network outage yesterday we've seen strange behavior.
> 
> We're running Netsaint for monitoring our NT, Novell and Linux machines
> and after the network started to recover yesterday the RTA on the ping
> which Netsaint does has been quite high, hovering between 60 and 89ms.
> 
> When I do a straight ping from the cli i get mixed results.  For the most
> part I get return times of .5-.8ms but every so often we are seeing times
> of 50-400ms(usually on the higher end of that) for no discernable reason.
> I was thinking network problem but none of the other boxes on our subnet
> are exhibiting the same symptoms.  Ping scores follow below...
> 
> I have restarted all network services since this started and bounced the
> interfaces but the behavior persists.  Does this sound like a problem or
> am I just being too touchy?  Anyone suggest anything (I'm defending my 355
> day uptime like a lion!) or seen anything like this before?

I've seen this behavior when the NIC was on the verge of dying. I don't
suppose you've tried swapping out the NIC, since you wanted to keep your
uptime?

Dave
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Beware the wrath of dragons, for you are crunchy, and good with ketchup.
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