Re: weird ISP problem?

Tim Fairchild <[email protected]> Fri, 19 Nov 2004 09:10:00 +1000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.firewalls.smoothwall.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Friday 19 Nov 2004 02:05, Frank S. Bernhardt wrote:
> Tim Fairchild wrote:
> >I'm getting a weird problem today which I suspect is ISP related. WEb
> > pages load very slowly, many not at all (like ebay).
> >
> >I get lots of messages:
> >
> >(snort_decoder) WARNING: Not IPv4 datagram!
> >
> >in the snort logs. Several per second at times.
> >
> >Luckily I have an emergency ISP number to dial in cases like this, and
> > it's working fine, so I'm guessing it's not a smoothwall problem.
> >
> >Anyone seen this before?
> >
> >tim
>
> I saw something similar to this when I hooked up a customer to Rogers
> Cable using a MultiTech Routefinder 550. He could browser a number of
> sites no problem but downloading 20 e-mails from another isp took 30
> minutes or more. Sometimes it just hung. Certain sites like sears.ca he
> could not access at all.

Well, it seems to be fixed now anyway. The ISP seems to be changing things 
arround a lot and I guess something was screwed up for a while... Hopefully 
they are sorted out now...

tim

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