[K12OSN] OT: still have sluggish system

Les Mikesell les at futuresource.com
Tue Sep 12 21:45:18 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 18:06 +0000, dahopkins at comcast.net wrote:

> There is something going on with the network that is saturating my
> gigabit switch.  The activity lights are almost solid at times.
> But, it is isolated to the switch.

What does 'isolated to the switch' mean?  The activity must be on
interfaces.  If it is hitting (or coming from) the server you
should be able to see it with tcpdump, ethereal, or ntop.  The
server probably won't be able to keep up but you'll see enough
to tell what is causing the problem.

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  Les Mikesell
   lesmikesell at gmail.com





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