[nflug] Help- At a Loss

[Cyber Source]

The first thing that comes to mind are these;
1. Duplicate MAC address on the network ?
2. Bad termination of an RJ45?
3. Some windows box gone hay wire?

justin.bennett at dynabrade.com wrote:
>
> Hey guys,
>
>         This is a little off topic, but I need some help. I'm 
> experiencing some packet loss on an internal network at one of our 
> remote locations. I don't understand why, It's network wide, if I try 
> to ping a windows server from a local desktop, I'll loose between 
> 6-19% of the packets, If I ping one server from another, or desktop to 
> desktop, I get packet loss, so bad it's affecting the performance of 
> the network to the point where DNS lookups fail and sites can't be 
> reached. I thought it was the network switch there, but I had him 
> replace it with a new one, (different brand) same problem. Is there 
> anything that may be causing this? I'm looking for thoughts at the 
> moment. Basically it's windows XP clients doing DHCP to a Linux box 
> running samba as a file server, and the a Windows 2003 server as their 
> application system.
>
> Thanks
> Justin
>
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