Access to the net.

alexm@agetech.net
Sun, 11 Aug 1996 10:32:19 -0400

strangest thing has been happening. I have been having complaints from
my ddedicated 28.8 customers that they are loosing the connection to the
internet constanly. They say that they can ping the machines on my
internal network but they cant access anything out of my network. For
like 2-3 minutes they can access anything at all out of my network. I
dont know why this is happening. Since my dialup customer are only on
for a little while at a time I ASSUME they just dont notice but my
direct customers do. I have some customers on ISDN direct using Ascend
but they do not report outage at all. The only ones that are having
trouble are the ones on the portmaster. Lets look at the ports.

Livingston Enterprises PortMaster Version 3.3.2c1
System uptime is 11 days 19 hours 47 minutes
pm1>

Dial Group: 0
pm1> show s29
----------------------- Current Status - Port S29
---------------------------
Status: ESTABLISHED
Input: 613110629 Parity Errors: 0
Output: 625072045 Framing Errors: 59
Pending: 0 Overrun Errors: 2460
Modem Status: DCD+ CTS+

Active Configuration Default Configuration
-------------------- ---------------------
Port Type: Netwrk Login/Netwrk (Dial In)
(Security)
Baud Rates: 115200 115200,115200,115200
Flow Control: RTS/CTS RTS/CTS
Modem Control: on on
Modem Config: Configured usr

Remote Host: obiwan.TerraNova.net
Netmask: 255.255.255.255 0.0.0.0
Interface: ptp29 (PPP,Quiet,Compre (SLIP,Quiet)
Mtu: 1500 1500
Async Map: L:00000000 R:ffffffff 00000000
Login Message:
Welcome To AGE.net, Total Internet Control

use lowercase passwords and user names only
add .ppp to your username for PPP connection
add .slip to your username for SLIP connection
add .cslip to your username for CSLIP connecion

For 11 days up, that is quite a bit of overrunn errors dont you think.
Would they cause this problem?

Dial Group: 0
pm1> show ether0
Ethernet Status: IP - Enabled IPX - Disabled

Interface Addr: pm1.agetech.net (205.152.26.30)
Netmask: 205.152.26.128
Broadcast Address: 205.152.26.0

IPX Network: 00000000
IPX Frame Type: ETHERNET_802.2
Ethernet Address: 00:c0:05:01:4e:07

Routing: Quiet (Off)
Input Filter:
Output Filter:
pm1> set ether0 netmask 255.255.255.0
ether0 netmask changed from 205.152.26.128 to 255.255.255.0
pm1> save all

The netmask was incorrect. Would that be the problem?????? remember it
works fine its just
an intermitent problem.

Name Ipkts Ierrs Opkts Oerrs Collis Resets Queue
ether0 8812443 1 8120472 0 10900 0 0

Doesnt look too bad?

Any suggestions?