prince_kenshi
04-21-2001, 06:06 AM
I just set up a FreeBSD machine on my network tonight. I thought the network wasn't working at all, but after trying it again with more patience, I found out it's just acting funny. When I ping my gateway, it sits there for a few seconds. Then it pops up with several responses simultaneously with descending times. Sometimes these times are around 5000 ms, sometimes more like 100000ms. (It seriously took about 100 seconds.) When I tracerouted Yahoo, it made it the full path but took 1998 ms to reach the gateway which I'm on now and it's about 10 feet away. On the bright side Yahoo was only a millesecond greater. A tcpdump showed nothing. When I traceroute from the gateway (Linux) to BSD, I get similar results. But the gateway and Windows 98 machine have no problem talking to each other. Since a Windows 2000 machine had had trouble with the same cable, I tried switching it with the one in mine but nothing changed. I did remove the motherboard from the box because of some grounding problems, but if it was causing electromagnetic interference, wouldn't it affect the whole network? I tried to make the ethernet cable run straight back from the computer to cause as little interference as possible. By the way, the hub is only a few feet away beside the monitor so it can't be something causing interference in the room unless it's the motherboard. Do you think it's interference? Is there some way I could test for that besides expensive equipment? Is there anything else to look at? Thanks for any help.