On Dec 18, 12:08am, "John F. Woods" wrote:
>
>Anyway, start with netstat -i to see if you're getting tons of corrupted
>packets.  (Actually, it won't be tons; each bad packet causes a long pause.)

<301 gateway /home/allen>% netstat -i
Name  Mtu   Network       Address              Ipkts Ierrs    Opkts Oerrs  Coll
fxp0  1500  <Link>        00:a0:c9:ce:cb:4a   212333     0   189838     0  4708
fxp0  1500  24.0.227/24   c678648-a.sttls1.   212333     0   189838     0  4708
ne1   1500  <Link>        00:00:e8:a7:2b:3c  1443774     0   872463     0  1114
ne1   1500  192.168       gate2.wormspace.c  1443774     0   872463     0  1114
ne1   1500  atalk:0-65534 66.6               1443774     0   872463     0  1114

ne1 is my internal network interface.

No errors.  I think the machine knows I don't like MS-Win, and is giving me
a hard time. ;-)

~Steve

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