-Kevin McKee- On Monday, October 06, 1997 6:16 PM, Pius Fischer [SMTP:pius@ienet.com] wrote: > > We've been noticing a strange problem with our MAX 4000. Every few minutes > (usually about every two minutes) the response time of the MAX increases > for a short period (up to about 15 seconds). For example, when pinging the > MAX from a host on the same network, the response time is usually about > 1-2 ms, but about once every two minutes that response time can jump to > several hundred milliseconds in the worst case. This problem also affects > packets going through the MAX - to a customer's P50, for example. > > We ran tcpdump, but we didn't notice any unusual traffic when the MAX's > response time increased. We also couldn't correlate any activity on the MAX > (e.g. incoming/outgoing calls, etc.) with the increased response time. > > This problem doesn't occur when pinging other hosts on the network, and > we wouldn't have noticed it with the MAX if it hadn't been for a customer > who noticed this problem when playing Quake across his ISDN connection. > Apparently exactly once every two minutes he's seeing a significant > lag and even some packet loss. And apparently this problem had never > occurred before until it began sometime during the last few weeks. > > The MAX is running 5.0Ap27 (tik.m40) now, but the problem was also > happening with 5.0Ap13. > > I know this is probably very little info to go on, but does anyone > have any ideas on what might be causing this or has anyone else > experienced something like this? > > Thanks very much for any help, > Pius > ++ Ascend Users Mailing List ++ > To unsubscribe: send unsubscribe to ascend-users-request@bungi.com > To get FAQ'd: <<A HREF="http://www.nealis.net/ascend/faq">http://www.nealis.net/ascend/faq</A>> ++ Ascend Users Mailing List ++ To unsubscribe: send unsubscribe to ascend-users-request@bungi.com To get FAQ'd: <<A HREF="http://www.nealis.net/ascend/faq">http://www.nealis.net/ascend/faq</A>> </PRE> <!--X-MsgBody-End--> <!--X-Follow-Ups--> <!--X-Follow-Ups-End--> <!--X-References--> <!--X-References-End--> <!--X-BotPNI--> <HR> <UL> <LI>Prev by Date: <STRONG><A HREF="msg09473.html">Re: (ASCEND) Modem 7:8 bad last 8 calls</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Next by Date: <STRONG><A HREF="msg09472.html">Re: (ASCEND) P50</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Prev by thread: <STRONG><A HREF="msg09492.html">Re: (ASCEND) strange occasional network lag with MAX 4000</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Next by thread: <STRONG><A HREF="msg09496.html">Re: (ASCEND) strange occasional network lag with MAX 4000</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Index(es): <UL> <LI><A HREF="mail22.html#09474"><STRONG>Main</STRONG></A></LI> <LI><A HREF="thrd196.html#09474"><STRONG>Thread</STRONG></A></LI> </UL> </LI> </UL> <!--X-BotPNI-End--> <!--X-User-Footer--> <!--X-User-Footer-End--> </BODY> </HTML>