Grant <emailgrant <at> gmail.com> writes:
> I have 3 Gentoo systems on a wireless network, one of which is the > firewall/router. Sometimes any traffic to one of the systems > effectively freezes traffic on the whole network. Does anyone know > what might cause that? It's tough to investigate because it doesn't > happen all the time. wireshark and similar tools are a good place to start. Look in this dir for a listing of diagnosic tools to try: /usr/portage/net-analyzer There is a book: 'Wireshark & Ethereal' by a group of authors: Orebaugh Ramirez Burke MOrris Pesce Wright That has a chapter titled 'Wireless sniffing with Wireshark' that may be of interest to you. I've only had a chance to look at a few pages, but, it's on my todo list..... good hunting! James
