Re: Network Problems

On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, Zimbizi H wrote:

> I have three sites connected through frame-relay links and two of these
> sites are quite fine in terms of performance. The third site has a weird
> problem. The link is there 95% of the time. Testing using ping to check link
> availability. However despite the fact that the link always says its there.
> If I try to access the computers at this site you wait for a very long time
> before you see somethng coming thru. command net view on windows computer
> will yield results after about 3-5 minutes most of the time. During this
> period you will not get timeout on the link. 
> 
> 
> site A----------------64K F/Relay------------------------Site B----------64K
> F/Relay---------------- Site C
> 
> Site A to B OK
> Site A to C Chaos
> 
> How can solve this mystery. Ping works fine between Site A and C but sending
> data across the wont bring joy
> 

Seems to me it might be connected to name lookup failures... not enough
details, though.
A suggestion: try to get some more insight into the problem with echoping

http://echoping.sourceforge.net/

Or even better, get Trinux: it's packed full with good network troubleshooting
tools.

Cheers,

Ant9000

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