From: "Robert Comer" 

1 timeout out of 4 in a ping is not normal.

- Bob Comer


"Ellen K"  wrote in message
news:0096bf.c2a4c7{at}harborwebs.com...
> Well, I didn't.
>
> The latest is:
>
> 1.  There were THREE NICs in the box, they disabled the two 10/100's and
set
> the gigabit one to manual, 1000 full duplex.
>
> 2.  NewlyMintedNetworkGuy said something about the box having been
configured
> as a trunk (well, not "a trunk", but "trunk" was
in there somewhere) which
> didn't make sense to him so now he made it just like my other server.
>
> 3.  My development partner (who does the front ends) said actually on my
other
> server the users DO sometimes lose the connection.  (!)   He also said if
the
> ping test shows for example 3 packets received and 1 lost, that is normal.
> (!!!)   However, he said he would be concerned if all the users lost their
> connections at the same time.  So now I have the script running on two
> different desktops and tomorrow we'll see whether they had problems at the
same
> time.   Also instead of searching for "Request timed out" I
will search
for
> "Received = 0".
>
> 4.  NewlyMintedNetworkGuy said the network sniffer is busy sniffing the TJ
> traffic and we can't use it, but he has some other tool he will set up.
>
> 5.  The NT admin turned on PerfMon.
>
> So tomorrow we should hopefully know more.
>
> > From: John Cuccia 
> > On Wed, 02 Jun 2004 10:17:15 -0700, Ellen K.
> >  wrote:
> >> I will ask.
> > No need, if you aren't using AD.

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