[plug] Samba query

[Brian Tombleson]

Apart from checking hardware (Cisco & hubs) and your routing tables, the
only time I've seen this happen is when a WinNT-5 (the beta release before
Win2K) Server went burko with browser elections and continually called for
them - essentially blocking the network but not totally.  Pings failed from
WinX machines at this time as they timeout after 0.03 seconds.

Out of interest, we fixed it without knowing when we turned on the Linux
machine we had for different testing - looking to see if we can snoop the
packets and solve the problem - which immediately shut the Win elections up
because it won them outright and settled things :)  It was confusing because
Linux On -> no problem, Linux Off - > network full.

Sorry if this isn't much help :(  Are you getting physical network traffic
(check the lights on the hub are flashing appropriately when you ping)? ..

- Brian.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Shackleton, Kevin" <kshackleton at agric.wa.gov.au>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2000 8:44 PM
Subject: RE: [plug] Samba query


> On this general subject, I just spent a couple more hours (the total is
> getting out of hand . .) trying to figure what a school network is doing.
> It's exhibiting the strangest symptoms, such as hosts can't ping other
hosts
> on the same subnet (all Winxx).  One curious statistic is that tcpdump
shows
> a lot of 'arp who-has' messages.