Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 11:39:43 -0600 (CST) From: Ronald Gonzalez <warping2@yahoo.com> To: "Joel V." <joel@smail.ee>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Welcome to Hell / Mysterious networking troubles on FreeBSD Message-ID: <868532.72032.qm@web50012.mail.re2.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <000001c82e1c$27909d50$0200a8c0@windsor>
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Why not to try another NIC? Att. Ronald Gonzalez --- "Joel V." <joel@smail.ee> escribió: > Hello all, > > I'm not experiencing this problem, my friend is. > He's simply too pissed off > to write here and I'm afraid he's going to set his > office on fire if he > doesn't solve the problem soon, so without further > ado, here's the problem: > > He has two fbsd boxes, main server running 6.1 and > dns server running 4.3. > He has 4 public IPs which he can use and the main > server is running on > x.x.x.122. He's main box is NOT acting as a > gateway/NAT box in the office. > Today he noticed that net is getting awfully slow. > Sometimes there would be > 50% pl when pinging, sometimes pinging would be all > OK, but SSH is dead-slow > and the webpages running on the main server are not > displaying. E-mails are > not going through. He calls the ISP, who say that > his network is showing > major uploading activity. He switches off networking > services one by one in > the main box but situation does not improve. He > disconnects the main server > and puts a windows xp box instead, which seems to > run fine. He puts back the > freebsd box, disables all networking services again > except for SSH and > connects the network: instant 100% networking > slow-down. He tried to change > the switch, thinking it's faulty. He disconnect > every other computer in the > office from the network: nothing. He put the public > IP address on the > second, internal network NIC: same thing. Now it > gets really mysterious: he > puts the old dns server with the x.x.x.122 IP and > instantly it becomes slow > as death. The logical conclusion would be that > someone is flooding that IP? > Only the windows xp box seemed to work fine and the > ISP guy said it was > upload bandwidth that was excessive... > > Netstat -a doesn't show anything interesting, arp -a > doesn't show any > incomplete addresses He tried to build and install a > new fresh kernel. > Nothing. This is the most creepy networking problem > I've heard of. Can YOU > help? Any ideas where to start looking? > > I'm not in the freebsd-hackers list, so if you want > the e-mail to reach me, > send a copy to joel@spirit.ee > > Thank you in advance! > Joel > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Comparte video en la ventana de tus mensajes (y también tus fotos de Flickr). Usa el nuevo Yahoo! Messenger versión Beta. http://e1.beta.messenger.yahoo.com/
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