<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt">Matt,<br><br>Have you done a performance analysis on this device? Also, if you have not done so, check your power to<br>the systems. Intermittent power problems are leading source of this stuff. <br><br>I am setting a VOip deal now and analyzing my eth1 interface using the following:<br><br>Use: sysstat package for SAR, iostat and mpstat. You may have to load it , but it is an rpm.<br> Turn it on in Admin->services->sysstat<br><br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">1. sar -n DEV eth1 1 20</span><br><br> for 20 samples at 1 second intervals on device eth1.<br><br>from my system.<br><br>08:37:30 AM IFACE rxpck/s txpck/s rxbyt/s
txbyt/s rxcmp/s txcmp/s rxmcst/s<br>08:37:31 AM lo 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00<br>08:37:31 AM eth0 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00<br>08:37:31 AM <span style="font-weight: bold;"> eth1 0.00 0.99 0.00 97.03 0.00
0.00 0.00</span><br>08:37:31 AM wmaster0 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00<br>08:37:31 AM wlan0 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00<br>08:37:31 AM virbr0 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00<br><br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">2. sar -I
17 1 20</span><br><br> for 20 samples of the Interrupts occurring on dev/eth1<br><br> also <span style="font-weight: bold;">cat /proc/interrupts to get the number also</span><br><br>3. If you turn on the sysstat service from the admin window, a file in /var/log/sa will save <br> the system activity history.<br><br><br>Hope this helps,<br><br>HMS<br><br><br><br><div> </div>Best Regards,<br><br><div>Michael Stolzle<div><br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Matt Campbell <dvdmatt@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> SGVLUG Discussion List. <sgvlug@sgvlug.net><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sunday, February 8,
2009 6:33:08 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [SGVLUG] Networking question<br></font><br> Hi John,<br><br>Unfortunately I can't answer you as my DSL is down.<br><br>We don't use the voice line the DSL is on, but when I plug it into a phone<br>voice quality appears reasonable.<br><br>I'll make a longer phone call from that line tomorrow to see if I notice<br>anything.<br><br>Can anybody recommend an 800 number with good hold music? J!<br><br>EarthLink has tested the line and shows it clear while the problems are<br>happening.<br><br>Matt<br><br>> -----Original Message-----<br>> From: <a ymailto="mailto:sgvlug-bounces@sgvlug.net" href="mailto:sgvlug-bounces@sgvlug.net">sgvlug-bounces@sgvlug.net</a> [mailto:<a ymailto="mailto:sgvlug-bounces@sgvlug.net" href="mailto:sgvlug-bounces@sgvlug.net">sgvlug-bounces@sgvlug.net</a>] On<br>> Behalf Of John E. Kreznar<br>> Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2009 3:13
AM<br>> To: SGVLUG Discussion List.<br>> Subject: Re: [SGVLUG] Networking question<br>> <br>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br>> Hash: SHA1<br>> <br>> "Matt Campbell" <<a ymailto="mailto:dvdmatt@gmail.com" href="mailto:dvdmatt@gmail.com">dvdmatt@gmail.com</a>> writes:<br>> <br>> > I have a question of technology bordering on politics for the group<br>> > this fine weekend.<br>> <br>> > I have been having intermittent network connectivity dropouts<br>> > through Earthlink DSL for the last 6 months. After hours on the<br>> > phone I have talked to a dozen L3 techs that admit they can see a<br>> > problem, and that they think it is at their end, but they can't fix<br>> > it. It is now so bad I'm rebooting my modem ever 15 minutes or so<br>> > to stay online.<br>> <br>> > I would love to go fiber, but I don't think it's available in my<br>> >
neighborhood yet. Any suggestions on how to maintain a fast<br>> > connection in Altadena?<br>> <br>> I've had DSL in Altadena for over five years now (DSLExtreme). Except<br>> for a couple of months last year, the connection has been excellent.<br>> I typically go months with no dropouts.<br>> <br>> That exception last year may interest you. It was indeed a political<br>> problem. Once AT&T approves a line for DSL, they assume it's<br>> permanent, and unless the customer has a problem with the /voice/<br>> connection, they won't look at it.<br>> <br>> Fortunately, there was in my case an associated voice problem.<br>> Unfortunately, it was intermittent and it took lots of pleading by me<br>> and several visits before one of their techs was listening at a time<br>> when the intermittent struck (static on the line).<br>> <br>> The problem turned out to be a squirrel-gnawed
drop line from the pole<br>> to my site.<br>> <br>> Do you notice /any/ change on the voice side correlated with your DSL<br>> dropouts?<br>> <br>> - --<br>> John E. Kreznar <a ymailto="mailto:jek@ininx.com" href="mailto:jek@ininx.com">jek@ininx.com</a> 9F1148454619A5F08550<br>> 705961A47CC541AFEF13<br>> <br>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----<br>> Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux)<br>> Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.8+<br>> <<a href="http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/" target="_blank">http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/</a>><br>> <br>> iD8DBQFJjr5HYaR8xUGv7xMRAnV+AJ4vlZH5r/8NxjJw6y24m/qBvTcQpACeMjdE<br>> gQeCFzhaeFI7D6/qebt5JmY=<br>> =pmCm<br>> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----<br><br></div></div></div></div><br>
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