 | | | Network Problems | Network Problems 2003-06-09 - By Antonio Galea
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On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, Zimbizi H wrote:
> I have three sites connected through frame-relay links and two of these
> sites are quite fine in terms of performance. The third site has a weird
> problem. The link is there 95% of the time. Testing using ping to check link
> availability. However despite the fact that the link always says its there.
> If I try to access the computers at this site you wait for a very long time
> before you see somethng coming thru. command net view on windows computer
> will yield results after about 3-5 minutes most of the time. During this
> period you will not get timeout on the link.
>
>
> site A-- ---- ---- ---64K F/Relay-- ---- ---- ---- ------Site B-- ---- --64K
> F/Relay-- ---- ---- --- Site C
>
> Site A to B OK
> Site A to C Chaos
>
> How can solve this mystery. Ping works fine between Site A and C but sending
> data across the wont bring joy
>
Seems to me it might be connected to name lookup failures... not enough
details, though.
A suggestion: try to get some more insight into the problem with echoping
http://echoping.sourceforge.net/
Or even better, get Trinux: it's packed full with good network troubleshooting
tools.
Cheers,
Ant9000
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%SYSTEM-F-TOOEARLY, please contact your sysadmin at a sensible time.
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