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>> 3) extremely sluggish performance, sometimes. Pings on local
>>10/100 baseT switched ethernet will be in the 100-700ms range, when normally
>
>This also is something that we have seen on a fairly regular basis. It
>does not appear to be related to heavy usage of the box as it occurs on
>boxes that get very little traffic. Resetting the box fixes the problem.
>If anyone has any thoughts on this...
The first thing that occurs to me is to check the ether0 netstats (sho
nets). My rule of thumb is that a network is health if Ierrs, Oerrs and
Resets are zero or single digit and the ratio of collisions divided by
Opkts is less than 5%. Anything else indicates possible problems on the
ethernet.
JGT
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