I have a couple of Linux boxes connected to Bigpond Direct with modems that use the same type of equipment and are are as close in configuration as I could ever get them. One of them has this odd habit after 9-10 days of connection time where the link is up but no traffic moves. When it's in this state and I try and ping the machine from another network I get the following response:
>From FastEthernet0.civ4.Canberra.telstra.net (203.50.10.6): Source Quench Resetting the link seems clear things up so I haven't been too worried about given that it only happens every week or so. But as of yesterday this is now happening about every 30 mins. Telstra has had a sticky beak and none of the other customers have reported this fault so it looks like it's something specific to the one site as my other machine that dials into civ6 from another site has never had this happen. I've checked for line noise, lowered the speed of the modem down to 33.6k and swapped out the modem (same make/model but different unit) but the problem persists. I can't think of anything that has changed over the past few days (this machine has been operating for six months without too much issue) although not long ago I did upgrad to kernel 2.4 (but both machines have the same kernel). I've googled and searched and the only reference I can find to "source quench" is with HP servers. Anyone know what it means and/or what I should test and look for to track this down? Thanks. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Darrell Burkey @ Home Canberra, ACT -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
