[TriLUG] OT: More on the RR Network issue

[Jon Carnes]

Could be a minor break in your cable.  You should give it a good forceful
pull (not a yank) - if it's an intermittent cable problem, that just might
be the straw you need for a repair (or it might actually fix it.)

It could also be a reflection problem, if cable from the splitter box is too
short... I've seen that exact problem with arcnet type networks.

Good Luck.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Vinson" <billvinson at nc.rr.com>
To: <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 11:19 AM
Subject: [TriLUG] OT: More on the RR Network issue


> I should have been more specific earlier, but I hadn't really thought
> clearly enough about the e-mail prior to sending it.  I was simply using
> the DNS servers as a point of reference.  All connections had dropped to
> nearly nothing.  I do run BIND internally for my lan and for caching, so
> I only use RR's DNS as a backup.  But, when I have an issue I normally
> check connectivity to the DNS servers as a matter of convenience.  Oh, I
> checked my bandwidth with their speed test (yeah I know it is crappy :)
> during these slowdowns and it was around 9kb/s.  Which is something I
> haven't ever seen even during peek times with RR.
>
> So, everything starts getting slow and what correct itself until a cable
> modem power cycle.  If I restart networking without power cycling it
> doesn't find an ip address and simply keeps looking until it has failed.
>
> Thanks again.
> Bill
>
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