On Tue, 2011-03-08 at 09:25 +0200, Hank Nussbacher wrote: > At 21:49 07/03/2011 -0500, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: > >On Mar 7, 2011, at 14:27, Greg Ihnen <os10ru...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > I run a small network on a mission base in the Amazon jungle which is > > fed by a satellite internet connection. We had an outage from Feb 25th to > > the 28th where we had no connectivity with email, http/s, ftp, Skype > > would indicate it's connected but even chatting failed, basically > > everything stopped working except for ICMP. I could ping everywhere just > > fine. I started doing traceroutes and they all were very odd, all not > > reaching their destination and some hopping all over creation before > > dying. But if I did traceroute with ICMP it worked fine. Does this > > indicate our upstream (Bantel.net) had a BGP issue? Bantel blamed > > Hughesnet which is the service they resell. I'm wondering what kind of > > problem would let ping work fine but not any of the other protocols. It > > also seems odd that I could traceroute via UDP part way to a destination > > but then it would fail if the problem was my own provider. Thanks. > > > > > > If this is the wrong forum for this post I'm sorry and please just hit > > delete. If this is the wrong forum but you'd be kind enough to share your > > expertise please reply off-list. Thanks! > > > >Honestly, I would rate this as one of the most on-topic posts in a while. > > +1. > When you have http working I suggest running: > http://netalyzr.icsi.berkeley.edu/index.html > to give you a benchmark of what your connection can do in the way of > protocols. > > Regards, > Hank
Greg - you may want try doing pings with large packets. You may have MTU mismatch or some other problem with a link with lets small ICMP pings through but mangles or discards large packets. --vadim