brent saner on 29 Apr 2008 06:46:24 -0700 |
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 Brian Vagnoni wrote: | BODY{font:10pt Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif;} Loop back connector, 1 | - 3 and 2 - 6 should work. Search for it and you will get a peachy | cool diagram. I think most have testers here, I know I have 2, plus | a butt set, and a gen toner combination. They aren't that expensive | and save time. You could try pinging the interfaces and looking for | packet loss. Increase packet size to the size of your mtu for stress | testing assuming this is over a LAN. noting he said without an expensive testing tool, i think the specialized tools aren't necessary for initial diagnosis. esp. if it's something localized to only a couple users. | | Too much broadcast traffic, packet loss, auto negotiation on switch | ports also another speed killer. if this were the case, it's most likely other users- himself included- would also be affected, depending on the network layout. i'm pretty sure we can rule out software/data-related issues. | | ping | ping sweep, find out what's on your network. a ping flood to the specific users' workstations would be more informative. | | You need to do cpu, disk, memory, and network stats on your server | to find out if the server/s are maxing at any of the previously | mentioned categories. again, rather convinced it's not a data/configuration issue. mark- if you out the jacks on the cables yourself (as i now see you did in a recent response), this sort of behaviour is almost always a symptom of a botched crimping/jacking job. no need to feel bad; we all do it from time to time. i'd go with a voltage meter as well. - -- brent saner. gpg info at http://www.notebookarmy.org/gpg.txt (this is a shorter sig.) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIFyai8u2Zh4MtlQoRAx0IAJsG/dXHO1JFxHFlssJL9Drb6KJOIACeJF6a EA0md7mRvTkP9BsC728/Z7I= =tGY9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
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