[aklug] Re: Mike B router issue

On Saturday 05 September 2009, Royce Williams wrote:
> Greg Madden wrote, on 9/5/2009 11:42 AM:
> > On Saturday 05 September 2009, Royce Williams wrote:
> >> Greg Madden wrote, on 9/5/2009 12:19 AM:
> >>> Thanks for the tip on poorly behaving routers. It turns out my
> >>> Linksys WRT54 GL is my conection problem. I plugged the ACS modem,
> >>> in bridge mode, directly into my box and use pppoe from there. No
> >>> issues. This is the second router that doesn't do well, with ACS
> >>> pppoe stuff ?
> >>
> >> Could it be an MTU issue?
> >
> > i don't think so, tried 1400 -1460 in increments of 8. Tried quite a
> > few things...
> >
> > The good news I put in a new router, Netgear WGR614v8, and all is
> > well.
> >
> > It all started with my smoothwall box , I thought it was nic cards,
> > etc. so I bought a Linksys WRT54GL, it never worked 100%, now the
> > Netgear. I never suspected a new router would be the problem,
> > Plugging the ACS modem directly into my box showed me the problem.
>
> If the problem is reproducible with a specific piece of gear, that's a
> golden opportunity to isolate the problem - and if it can be treated
> on the ACS side, to do so.
>
> Have you sniffed the traffic during the connection? Is there packet
> loss or errors? In other words, what is the definition of "poorly
> behaving"? :-)

I was going to try 'sniff' the traffic when I hooked uop the ACS modem
direrctly to my box, but the problem went away.

Behaving poorly : whenever I maxed out the download speed, i.e. , dl an
iso or update my Debian mirror, etc ,the connection would drop, and
reconnect with a different IP address, over and over and over.... ACK !!
All other 'normal' traffic was okay, I just stopped doing my Linux
install stuff, bummer.

AFAIKT it was a router problem, i don't know how to investigate what goes
in that box.

Thanks for all the help, what a list :-)

-- 
Peace
Greg Madden
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