RE: Latency quesstion

[Brandon Kim <brandon.kim () brandontek com>]

Dennis, 

You have a massive spanning tree issue....just kidding....check for that though....

Please update us more on your situation and if the other suggestions on the list helped.
Or we can communicate privately, I love troubleshooting situations like this....



> To: nanog () nanog org
> Subject: Re: Latency quesstion
> From: bruns () 2mbit com
> Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:12:59 +0000
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> Dennis,
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> In large installations, I've always found it helpful when diagnosing LAN issues to isolate floors and departments 
> first - using routers or with devices that can do transparent bridging.  That way, you can walk through each 
> dept/floor testing for the issues, and hopefully find only one location its still affecting.
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> Its entirely likely that there's either a loop of some sort or a switch has gone off the deep end.  
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> If you'd like, let him know if he wants to drop me a mail, I can walk through details about the situation and 
> hopefully help him narrow it down.
> ------Original Message------
> From: Dennis Dayman
> To: nanog () nanog org
> Subject: Latency quesstion
> Sent: Mar 18, 2010 7:56 AM
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> have a friend who has 21 floors of a building in DFW, multiple switches, etc and they started to have latency issues 
> this weekend where half if not all packet are being dropped to folder shares, printers, etc. Suggestions on how they 
> can troubleshoot that? call in a company to help identify it?
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> -Dennis
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> Brielle Bruns
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