[Leaplist] busted networking equipment?

[Richard F. Ostrow Jr.]

The PL on your modem could be from line noise or construction, etc.

The loss on your internal net says your equipment is broken. Either
tolerate it, or figure out which is causing the problem (switch, nic1,
nic2, cable a, cable  b). BTW, don't try NFS with PL... it's not very
tolerant of it. Usually hoses up the NFS server to the point that it needs
to be killed (usually pull all the power plugs or hold power 4 seconds),
which isn't exactly the healthiest thing to do to a nice, highly redundant
file server.

I have a Nortel Networks Bay Stack switch that had some serious PL
problems. I ditched it for a Dell PowerConnect, which seems to have nicely
resolved the problem. I still have problems with my nForce 750i integrated
ethernet being flaky (as in takes unusually long to connect, times out on
DHCP, not capable of jumbo frames, etc), but there's no PL any more. Still
have the old switch, but I don't think I'm going to go back to using it.
On Thu, November 5, 2009 3:25 pm, Jason Boxman wrote:
> The topography is 192.168.1.112 -> 192.168.1.1 via a single, consumer
> junk 8 port switch and two ethernet cables.  192.168.1.1 then has a
> second nic that plugins into the DSL modem.  (via mtr)
>
> Host           Loss%   Snt   Last   Avg  Best  Wrst StDev
> 1. 192.168.1.1  0.8%   239    1.3   0.1   0.1   4.5   0.4
> 2. fl-67-77-168 1.7%   238   41.5  50.8  39.4 1578. 106.3
>
> The link is almost entirely underutilized, idle.  Should I ever be
> seeing packet loss on such a local hop?
>
> Last time this happened, replacing the Embarq modem fixed it, but I had
> no problem with the internal hop that time.
>
> Thoughts?
>
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