Re: ping packet loss when size gt 1500

2010-10-22 Thread Chris Davies
Adam Hardy adam@cyberspaceroad.com wrote: What I need is a ping test or something that I can put in smokeping to alert me when I forget, e.g. this morning there was a power outage that took out the modem. I think there are others here making suggestions for that. What do you mean by

Re: ping packet loss when size gt 1500

2010-10-20 Thread Adam Hardy
Adam Hardy on 19/10/10 23:16, wrote: My version of traceroute also has the --mtu option, which tries to determine the MTU for the route being traced. It looks perhaps like the firewall for interactivebrokers (IP 208.192.181.62) *may* be blocking too many ICMP control message types - including

Re: ping packet loss when size gt 1500

2010-10-20 Thread Chris Davies
Adam Hardy adam@cyberspaceroad.com wrote: Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination TCPMSS tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp flags:SYN,RST/SYN TCPMSS set 1460 So you're clamping TCPMSS at 1460? What if the MSS needs to be

Re: ping packet loss when size gt 1500

2010-10-20 Thread Adam Hardy
Chris Davies on 20/10/10 11:45, wrote: Adam Hardy adam@cyberspaceroad.com wrote: Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination TCPMSS tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp flags:SYN,RST/SYN TCPMSS set 1460 So you're clamping TCPMSS

Re: ping packet loss when size gt 1500

2010-10-19 Thread Adam Hardy
Chris Davies on 18/10/10 13:15, wrote: Adam Hardy adam@cyberspaceroad.com wrote: I tried lowering the MTU to 1400 but it made no difference. So ping -s 1372 failed? I thought you said it worked up to -s 1472 (packets of 1500 bytes)? When you drop your MTU to 1400, that means that your

Re: ping packet loss when size gt 1500

2010-10-19 Thread Adam Hardy
Ron Johnson on 19/10/10 00:25, wrote: On 10/18/2010 04:54 AM, Adam Hardy wrote: [snip] I'm running a windows app to monitor it called 'ping plotter' which charts the ping responses and flags up the packet loss, and one server out there in particular loses 15% of pings: 213.120.176.62 Maybe

Re: ping packet loss when size gt 1500

2010-10-19 Thread Adam Hardy
Ron Johnson on 19/10/10 00:25, wrote: On 10/18/2010 04:54 AM, Adam Hardy wrote: [snip] I'm running a windows app to monitor it called 'ping plotter' which charts the ping responses and flags up the packet loss, and one server out there in particular loses 15% of pings: 213.120.176.62 Maybe

Re: ping packet loss when size gt 1500

2010-10-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/19/2010 04:30 AM, Adam Hardy wrote: Ron Johnson on 19/10/10 00:25, wrote: On 10/18/2010 04:54 AM, Adam Hardy wrote: [snip] I'm running a windows app to monitor it called 'ping plotter' which charts the ping responses and flags up the packet loss, and one server out there in particular

Re: ping packet loss when size gt 1500

2010-10-19 Thread Adam Hardy
Ron Johnson on 19/10/10 12:46, wrote: On 10/19/2010 04:30 AM, Adam Hardy wrote: Ron Johnson on 19/10/10 00:25, wrote: On 10/18/2010 04:54 AM, Adam Hardy wrote: [snip] I'm running a windows app to monitor it called 'ping plotter' which charts the ping responses and flags up the packet loss,

Re: ping packet loss when size gt 1500

2010-10-19 Thread Chris Davies
Adam Hardy adam@cyberspaceroad.com wrote: I have a question about traceroute that might be relevant. I haven't figured out the traceroute options because on lenny, my traceroute doesn't complete. The last hop to mktgw1.ibllc.com doesn't show - it just counts stars up to 30. But on windows

Re: ping packet loss when size gt 1500

2010-10-19 Thread Adam Hardy
Chris Davies on 19/10/10 16:24, wrote: Adam Hardy adam@cyberspaceroad.com wrote: I have a question about traceroute that might be relevant. I haven't figured out the traceroute options because on lenny, my traceroute doesn't complete. The last hop to mktgw1.ibllc.com doesn't show - it just

Re: ping packet loss when size gt 1500

2010-10-18 Thread Adam Hardy
Chris Davies on 17/10/10 23:08, wrote: Adam Hardy adam@cyberspaceroad.com wrote: Thanks for all the info. I guess it tells me there's nothing definitely wrong. MTU is a per-link value, and the smallest MTU determines the MTU for all hops that the packet travels between client and server.

Re: ping packet loss when size gt 1500

2010-10-18 Thread Chris Davies
Adam Hardy adam@cyberspaceroad.com wrote: I tried lowering the MTU to 1400 but it made no difference. So ping -s 1372 failed? I thought you said it worked up to -s 1472 (packets of 1500 bytes)? When you drop your MTU to 1400, that means that your local data packets are fragmented as

Re: ping packet loss when size gt 1500

2010-10-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/18/2010 04:54 AM, Adam Hardy wrote: [snip] I'm running a windows app to monitor it called 'ping plotter' which charts the ping responses and flags up the packet loss, and one server out there in particular loses 15% of pings: 213.120.176.62 Maybe not as fancy, but I find that mtr is

Re: ping packet loss when size gt 1500

2010-10-17 Thread Adam Hardy
Morgan Gangwere on 16/10/10 21:14, wrote: On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 20:11:46 +0100 Adam Hardy wrote: [stuff] Nope you're not the only one: ( 4:~ )%ping -s 1473 208.245.107.9 PING 208.245.107.9 (208.245.107.9) 1473(1501) bytes of data. ^C --- 208.245.107.9 ping statistics --- 4 packets transmitted,

Re: ping packet loss when size gt 1500

2010-10-17 Thread Adam Hardy
Anticept . on 16/10/10 21:20, wrote: On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Adam Hardy adam@cyberspaceroad.com wrote: I have a bizarre problem with the server at 208.245.107.9, which is an internet broker whose server keeps disconnecting when making data requests. Their support is blaming the

Re: ping packet loss when size gt 1500

2010-10-17 Thread Adam Hardy
Morgan Gangwere on 16/10/10 21:14, wrote: ( 7:~ )%ping 208.245.107.9 PING 208.245.107.9 (208.245.107.9) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 208.245.107.9: icmp_req=1 ttl=118 time=150 ms 64 bytes from 208.245.107.9: icmp_req=2 ttl=118 time=147 ms 64 bytes from 208.245.107.9: icmp_req=3 ttl=118

Re: ping packet loss when size gt 1500

2010-10-17 Thread Adam Hardy
Morgan Gangwere on 16/10/10 21:14, wrote: On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 20:11:46 +0100 Adam Hardy wrote: [stuff] Nope you're not the only one: ( 4:~ )%ping -s 1473 208.245.107.9 PING 208.245.107.9 (208.245.107.9) 1473(1501) bytes of data. ^C --- 208.245.107.9 ping statistics --- 4 packets transmitted,

Re: ping packet loss when size gt 1500

2010-10-17 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 20:11:46 +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: I thought I knew enough to keep my own home LAN going but I'm stuck on this one and I can't work out what to do next. In fact I thought everything was fine until I tried pinging with big packet sizes. ping -s 1472 www.bbc.co.uk ping -s

RE: ping packet loss when size gt 1500

2010-10-17 Thread owens
Original Message From: adam@cyberspaceroad.com To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: ping packet loss when size gt 1500 Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2010 20:11:46 +0100 I thought I knew enough to keep my own home LAN going but I'm stuck on this one and I can't work out what to do

Re: ping packet loss when size gt 1500

2010-10-17 Thread Adam Hardy
Anticept . on 16/10/10 21:20, wrote: On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Adam Hardy adam@cyberspaceroad.com wrote: I have a bizarre problem with the server at 208.245.107.9, which is an internet broker whose server keeps disconnecting when making data requests. Their support is blaming the

Re: ping packet loss when size gt 1500

2010-10-17 Thread Adam Hardy
ow...@netptc.net on 17/10/10 16:30, wrote: I thought I knew enough to keep my own home LAN going but I'm stuck on this one and I can't work out what to do next. In fact I thought everything was fine until I tried pinging with big packet sizes. ping -s 1472 www.bbc.co.uk ping -s 1472

Re: ping packet loss when size gt 1500

2010-10-17 Thread Adam Hardy
Camaleón on 17/10/10 13:02, wrote: I have a bizarre problem with the server at 208.245.107.9, which is an internet broker whose server keeps disconnecting when making data requests. Their support is blaming the problem on me. I cannot load that site (208.245.107.9) on a web browser :-?

Re: ping packet loss when size gt 1500

2010-10-17 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 17. 10. 2010 19:11:34 je Adam Hardy napisal(a): OK, I have ditched BT's DNS and switched over the OpenDNS. Hopefully that will help. After a bit of faffing I even have ddclient working although I guess that's unnecessary. Quite. This snippet will update your OpenDNS account just as

Re: ping packet loss when size gt 1500

2010-10-17 Thread Chris Davies
Adam Hardy adam@cyberspaceroad.com wrote: Thanks for all the info. I guess it tells me there's nothing definitely wrong. MTU is a per-link value, and the smallest MTU determines the MTU for all hops that the packet travels between client and server. If something between the client and

ping packet loss when size gt 1500

2010-10-16 Thread Adam Hardy
I thought I knew enough to keep my own home LAN going but I'm stuck on this one and I can't work out what to do next. In fact I thought everything was fine until I tried pinging with big packet sizes. ping -s 1472 www.bbc.co.uk ping -s 1472 208.245.107.9 works fine, no packet loss ever. ping

Re: ping packet loss when size gt 1500

2010-10-16 Thread Morgan Gangwere
On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 20:11:46 +0100 Adam Hardy wrote: [stuff] Nope you're not the only one: ( 4:~ )%ping -s 1473 208.245.107.9 PING 208.245.107.9 (208.245.107.9) 1473(1501) bytes of data. ^C --- 208.245.107.9 ping statistics --- 4 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 3022ms

Re: ping packet loss when size gt 1500

2010-10-16 Thread Anticept .
On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Adam Hardy adam@cyberspaceroad.com wrote: I have a bizarre problem with the server at 208.245.107.9, which is an internet broker whose server keeps disconnecting when making data requests. Their support is blaming the problem on me. 208.245.107.9 is used

Re: ping packet loss when size gt 1500

2010-10-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/16/2010 03:20 PM, Anticept . wrote: [snip] Use ... google DNS. So instead of just knowing everything you search, and all of your email, they also know everywhere you surf? -- Seek truth from facts. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: ping packet loss when size gt 1500

2010-10-16 Thread Anticept .
On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 5:31 PM, Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: On 10/16/2010 03:20 PM, Anticept . wrote: [snip] Use ... google DNS. So instead of just knowing everything you search, and all of your email, they also know everywhere you surf? -- Seek truth from facts. I'm not