[TriLUG] RE: Roadrunner email has been down since yesterday afternoon!

[Ron Joffe]

John,

Thanks for the hint, I added my local router, and my RR cable modem Address. I 
have a commercial account with a 4 port switch/modem combo and it's already 
in bridge mode.

Ron





On Monday 07 November 2005 11:57, jonc wrote:
> You should also ping your local internal router and your local
> Roadrunner router.  This will let you know if the problem is local (like
> your firewall dropping packets) or if it's the local Road Runner router
> that is simply overwhelmed.
>
> I've found Road Runner's internal network to be very robust (despite
> todays fun). The problem comes at the edges of their contact with the
> customer - ie the community hub/switch that your cable modem connects to
> inside RoadRunner.
>
> One way to get better connectivity is to have Roadrunner put your cable
> modem into bridged mode. The cable modems tend to run low end cpu's and
> they drop or delay packets significantly when under load. If you remove
> the NAT function from them that helps very much.
>
> Jon Carnes
>
> === original message ===
> Hey folks,
>
> Looking for a suggestion. I have noticed that my VPN tunnels seem to drop
> on a random order.
>
> So I have set up a simple ping cron job, I have it sending out 60 pings
> every minute to three servers (one on the RR network {DNS}, one on the east
> coast, one on the west coast).
>
> The job is run every minute, so in fact this is a continuous ping that
> sends results every minute.
>
> I see that of my 60 packets, I loose a few almost once every 3 minutes.
> This seems to affect all three servers.
>
> So my questions are:
>
> 1. Is this providing me with a valid network test?
> 2. What kind of results should I expect?
> 3. What type of network reliability test would you recommend?
> 4. What type of network reliability should I expect?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ron