[nflug] Help- At a Loss

[Cyber Source]

lol, freakin sales guys, what a maroon (bugs bunny)...

justin.bennett at dynabrade.com wrote:
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> Thanks guys, after hours of troubleshooting with guys who's native 
> language is not english, I had them pull every network connection from 
> the switch except the servers, and plug them back in one at a time, 
>  It wound up being a drop that ran to a Dlink switch in an area where 
> salesguys plug in their laptops, as it turns out one of them 
> apparently plugged both ends of a patch cable into the DLink switch...
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> Thanks again for the replies.. :)
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> Justin
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> *Robert Meyer <meyer_rm at yahoo.com>*
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> Another possibility is that you have a mix of half duplex and full 
> duplex links in your environment.  This causes FCS errors that cause 
> lots of retransmissions.  This is especially bad between switches.  If 
> your switches are talking to each other in full duplex but the 
> machines are half, bad things happen.  It's the same problem if you 
> have full duplex machines and half duplex switches...  Give that a check
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> Cheers!
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> Bob
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com>
> To: nflug at nflug.org
> Sent: Monday, August 11, 2008 2:02:30 PM
> Subject: Re: [nflug] Help- At a Loss
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> 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?
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> __justin.bennett at dynabrade.com_ <mailto:justin.bennett at dynabrade.com> 
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> > Hey guys,
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> >        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.
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> > Thanks
> > Justin
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