[plug] internet problems

[Matt Kemner]

On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, The Thought Assassin wrote:

> On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Christian wrote:
> > Have you got any firewall rules which would impact on traffic?  As a
> > wild guess it could be something like MTU path discovery which is being
> > prohibited due to a badly configured ICMP firewall rule.
> It's not such a wild guess. Given the symptoms I'd say you're 90% likely
> to be right. Evan, have you tried killing the firewall temporarily?

Speaking from personal experience there, Greg? ;)

The other thing it could be is dodgy cache, ide controller, or something
else on the motherboard.

I have a machine here that is the gateway for a large webhosting company
that has a dodgy motherboard in it and shows similar symptoms -
when copying files to and from the machine the transfers keep pausing for
a while.  On the other hand the webservers behind it are unaffected, and
have no trouble sending or receiving at 100Mb, so long as it is not
to/from the gateway itself. :)

I really should get around to replacing that motherboard some time...
(although it does the job it is meant to do perfectly)

Evan, is it possible to try swapping hard drives between the 2 machines?
That would prove immediately if it is a hardware or software/HDD problem.

 - Matt