Re: Network Problems

> 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

What's the hardware on the 3rd link? Data gets sent either tcp/udp, where
ping is icmp. Check your hardware.

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Keith Mastin
BeechTree Information Technology Services Inc.
Toronto, Canada
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