[HPADM] Re: dropped telnet sessions on hpux10.20- additional info

From: Jim Gray (grayj@erinet.com)
Date: Tue Oct 12 2004 - 08:59:23 EDT


We have also done the following additional troubleshooting to no avail:

1) Swapped out the 10/100 switch.

2) Swapped out the patch cord.

3) switched from the J3515A 10/100 NIC to the onboard 10Mbps NIC.
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> You might increase the number of telnet sessions allowed by
increasing these in your kernel (ntpy, etc).
>
> If you can't ping the box...check your network for possible
flooding.
> I've seen things cause this from a number of sources...an application
is broadcasting udp like crazy; the server has netscape or mozilla on
it and folks are running and even worse streaming things via the
internet...and so on.
>
> Happy hunting,
> Rita
>
> >>> "Jim Gray" <grayj@erinet.com> 10/12/04 05:57AM >>>
> We have a d390 running 10.20. In the past month, we have started
> having dropped telnet sessions. For 10-15 seconds you can't ping the
> ip of the machine, then everything is back to normal. Nothing show
up
> in syslog. Inetd was started with logging, but it doesn't show
> anything either. Nothing has changed on the network in the past six
> months. I've already looked for a duplicate ip address, but there
> isn't one. Any suggestions? TIA, will summarize.
>
>
> Jim Gray
> jimgray@woh.rr.com
> Cellular (937)-470-8188
>
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