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From: Robert Svoboda <r080@×××××.cz>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Packet loss unknown issue
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 15:41:15
Message-Id: 20050713153538.GA19760@ivanka.quashnosh.dyndns.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Packet loss unknown issue by "José Pedro Saraiva"
1 * José Pedro Saraiva <nocive@×××××.com> [2005-07-12 23:30]:
2 > Hello,
3
4 Hi,
5
6 > I connect to the net through eth0 and have a masquerading
7 > through eth1 to my other computers, using shorewall.
8
9 Uh, I'm not sure i understand you.
10
11 your localhost eth0 -> shorewall -> Inet
12 your localhost eth1 -> shorewall -> your other machines
13
14 Is above right?
15 What address ranges do you use?
16
17 > My server never had any problems of this kind and all was
18 > fine until a couple of days ago. I'm experiencing some heavy
19 > packet loss when pinging different hosts. I have isolated
20 > the problem (at least I think I did) and got to the
21 > conclusion that issuing a simple 'ifconfig eth1 down' and
22 > leaving eth0 up, the packet loss vanishes. Tests were made
23 > with all services down (shorewall, sshd, apache2, mysqld,
24 > proftpd, sendmail, ...)
25
26 What about routing? As root run:
27 $ route
28
29 or tracepath?
30 $ tracepath google.com
31
32 Robert
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