Random Network Droping, advice needed

Jim Radford jim at grubber.org
Tue Mar 16 23:27:41 UTC 2004


On Tuesday 16 Mar 2004 9:33 pm, jludwig wrote:
> If you are seeing errors usually something is broken. Seeing this is on
> the RX side means it isn't receiving what it expects to see, S.A. ping
> requests, or is receiving damaged packets.  Broken; bad configuration --
> this would work or not work ;intermittent connection -- broken or badly
> crimped cable or connector; large amounts of r.f. noise from somewhere ;
> Dos from Trojan; Flakey marginal transceiver chip and so on. Again I
> have never seen a configuration that was intermittant.

Ok. Seeing as I've been using this ADSL for over a year, with the same network 
cable - I could be right in saying it's not the cable or the connector, 
right?

How could I check for a Dos from a Trojan? Would a tcpdump show me?

-- 
Jim Radford
   "If at first you don't succeed - change the DC"





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