[Techtalk] Is it the server???

[Michelle Murrain]

At 12:05 PM 4/4/2002, Michelle Murrain wrote:

>Outgoing smtp seems to work fine. I picked a few of the hosts that I'm 
>having trouble with (that have unreachable errors), and regular pings show 
>very little (if any) packet loss, whereas ping flooding shows serious 
>packet loss (like 25%). I thought at first it might be the ethernet cable 
>between the server and the router, but it's not - I swapped several out. 
>When I try to send out large packets from the router, they all get dropped.


New info,

Just 'cause I was curious, I did a ping flood from a different box within 
the same network, and guess what - way, way, less packet loss. (like 1%)

So it seems like it's the server, right? If so - is it a bad ethernet card? 
Or can something else be going on?

.Michelle

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