Greetings, I have been bothered for years with this problem and I still have no idea on where to look for the cause.
About once a fortnight I get very slow ppp performance and when I check with ping I see the packets coming back in groups of ~8. Sometimes it fixes itself but usually I have to hangup and redial. Here is an example. mentor:# ping t99 PING t99 t99.xxx.wa.edu.au (192.168.1.99): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 192.168.1.99: icmp_seq=0 ttl=254 time=7441.6 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.99: icmp_seq=1 ttl=254 time=6459.8 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.99: icmp_seq=2 ttl=254 time=5474.5 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.99: icmp_seq=3 ttl=254 time=4517.5 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.99: icmp_seq=4 ttl=254 time=3525.3 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.99: icmp_seq=5 ttl=254 time=2532.6 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.99: icmp_seq=6 ttl=254 time=1542.5 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.99: icmp_seq=7 ttl=254 time=552.7 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.99: icmp_seq=8 ttl=254 time=7996.1 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.99: icmp_seq=9 ttl=254 time=7037.2 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.99: icmp_seq=10 ttl=254 time=6061.9 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.99: icmp_seq=11 ttl=254 time=5071.6 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.99: icmp_seq=12 ttl=254 time=4077.2 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.99: icmp_seq=13 ttl=254 time=3082.3 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.99: icmp_seq=14 ttl=254 time=2108.0 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.99: icmp_seq=15 ttl=254 time=1116.9 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.99: icmp_seq=16 ttl=254 time=128.5 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.99: icmp_seq=17 ttl=254 time=119.4 ms Can anyone throw any light on this weird behaviour, please? -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lindsay Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Perth, Western Australia voice +61 8 9316 2486 32.0125S 115.8445E Debian Linux =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
