[H-GEN] Problem

[Stephen Brine]

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Hi all, I am trying to track down what is broken.
Occasionally I get a problem where my connection is still up but nothing 
get through. This doesn't happen all the time but when it does and I ping 
(in this case a machine that is on the other side (on the network of the 
other side) I get what is below. Now I am not sure exactly what the problem 
is or where it lies (whether it is my machine or whether it is the modem). 
A drop of the connection and a redial solves the problem but I don't like 
doing this, sometimes it happens immediately after a dial in other times it 
happens after a day or longer (if I am lucky) Most of the time the 
connection runs fine for days (with the occasional modem drop out during 
peak times as per non priority during peak) Other than that all other 
functions are happy

The machine is a Pent 133, 32Meg running Mandrake 7.2 (as it has done for 
the last year and a bit) running as a ip masq between a 56k Modem and my 
network. What else would you want to know.

One thing I didn't do is keep a log of ip's (dynamic) that I have had when 
the problem occurs.

	Thanks,
		Steve B

Results of ping

PING www.ihug.com.au (203.109.250.78): 56 octets data
64 octets from 203.109.250.78: icmp_seq=0 ttl=252 time=2242.3 ms
wrong data byte #0 should be 0xf3 but was 0xf1f1 e0 af 3d 42 22 e 0
	8 9 a b c d e f 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 1a 1b 1c 1d 1e 1f 20 21 22 
23 24 25 26 27
	28 29 2a 2b 2c 2d 2e 2f
64 octets from 203.109.250.78: icmp_seq=1 ttl=252 time=1820.3 ms
wrong data byte #0 should be 0xf3 but was 0xf2f2 e0 af 3d d4 29 e 0
	8 9 a b c d e f 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 1a 1b 1c 1d 1e 1f 20 21 22 
23 24 25 26 27
	28 29 2a 2b 2c 2d 2e 2f
64 octets from 203.109.250.78: icmp_seq=2 ttl=252 time=1715.0 ms
wrong data byte #0 should be 0xf4 but was 0xf3f3 e0 af 3d 89 3e e 0
	8 9 a b c d e f 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 1a 1b 1c 1d 1e 1f 20 21 22 
23 24 25 26 27
	28 29 2a 2b 2c 2d 2e 2f
64 octets from 203.109.250.78: icmp_seq=3 ttl=252 time=2105.5 ms
wrong data byte #0 should be 0xf6 but was 0xf4f4 e0 af 3d 12 51 e 0
	8 9 a b c d e f 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 1a 1b 1c 1d 1e 1f 20 21 22 
23 24 25 26 27
	28 29 2a 2b 2c 2d 2e 2f
64 octets from 203.109.250.78: icmp_seq=4 ttl=252 time=1720.3 ms
wrong data byte #0 should be 0xf6 but was 0xf5f5 e0 af 3d b4 50 e 0
	8 9 a b c d e f 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 1a 1b 1c 1d 1e 1f 20 21 22 
23 24 25 26 27
	28 29 2a 2b 2c 2d 2e 2f
64 octets from 203.109.250.78: icmp_seq=5 ttl=252 time=1830.3 ms
wrong data byte #0 should be 0xf7 but was 0xf6f6 e0 af 3d b3 50 e 0
	8 9 a b c d e f 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 1a 1b 1c 1d 1e 1f 20 21 22 
23 24 25 26 27
	28 29 2a 2b 2c 2d 2e 2f
64 octets from 203.109.250.78: icmp_seq=6 ttl=252 time=1930.4 ms
wrong data byte #0 should be 0xf8 but was 0xf7f7 e0 af 3d 84 50 e 0
	8 9 a b c d e f 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 1a 1b 1c 1d 1e 1f 20 21 22 
23 24 25 26 27
	28 29 2a 2b 2c 2d 2e 2f
64 octets from 203.109.250.78: icmp_seq=7 ttl=252 time=1800.4 ms
wrong data byte #0 should be 0xf9 but was 0xf8f8 e0 af 3d 84 50 e 0
	8 9 a b c d e f 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 1a 1b 1c 1d 1e 1f 20 21 22 
23 24 25 26 27
	28 29 2a 2b 2c 2d 2e 2f
64 octets from 203.109.250.78: icmp_seq=8 ttl=252 time=1910.4 ms
wrong data byte #0 should be 0xfa but was 0xf9f9 e0 af 3d 82 50 e 0
	8 9 a b c d e f 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 1a 1b 1c 1d 1e 1f 20 21 22 
23 24 25 26 27
	28 29 2a 2b 2c 2d 2e 2f
64 octets from 203.109.250.78: icmp_seq=9 ttl=252 time=2070.3 ms

--- www.ihug.com.au ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 1715.0/1914.5/2242.3 ms
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Stephen Brine

WWW: http://www.powerup.com.au/~sbrine

E-Mail: sbrine at powerup.com.au

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