I've got a RH7.3 box that I have succesfully setup to route 4 subnets out to our upstream provider. Routing-wise, everything works fine. My problem is that every 5 minutes (almost to the second) the box starts dropping packets like mad, and generally just goes unresponsive. The server itself is not locked up, but pinging either of it's interfaces, or pinging through it fails utterly. Oddly enough, about 1 minute later everything returns to normal. It is important to note that this is a _heavy_ traffic network, passing approximately 20-30Mb/s through those interfaces. There are no IPTables rules in the way (i've removed all and still see the behavior). The box itself should not be a problem, I think: dual P3-700 512MB ram, dual 3Com 100TX FD. I have also confirmed that it is not a problem on our upstream. So I guess my question is: are there kernel tweaks I need to do to better tune this? Is an ARP cache getting updated too frequently? The regularity, and the return to normalcy really make me think it's some setting I just need to tune, but so far I haven't come across anything terribly helpful.
Any thought are appreciated. Thanks, Matthew -- Matthew Boeckman (816) 777-2160 Manager - Systems Integration Saepio Technologies -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
