Topic: Help with an average 25% packet loss on fresh build

[bizell]

If this question has already been discussed, or I am missing it, please link me to the appropriate page.

I just built up a new server running SME 7 and am consistantly having packet loss issues, generally betweeen 25-30%. It doesn't matter if I am trying to access the server manager through a web browser, or trying to simply ping the box. Often times I cannot access the server manager at all or ping it at all, but if I wait for 10-15 seconds and try again, then it will sometimes respond.

I thought maybe it was a traffic issue, maybe too much traffic on the one switch, but my older SME server has no issues like this. I even made sure that there were no other devices talking on the network at the time, and it doesn't make any difference. On the older SME box I get a local ping time of 1ms, which is what it should be. When then new SME 7 box does respond, the response times are always somewhere between 20-50ms.

It was originally built on a P4 1.6ghz with 512mb and a 250GB Seagate HD, with an Intel nic. I changed the nic out to a 3-com, and that didn't help. I then switched it over to an entirely different machine, a P3 1.0ghz that was running my older version of SME so there would be no common hardware at all, and it still does it.

The only thing I haven't done is do a fresh install of the OS.

Has anyone else experienced this or have any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

[dsemuk]

It was originally built on a P4 1.6ghz with 512mb and a 250GB Seagate HD, with an Intel nic. I changed the nic out to a 3-com, and that didn't help. I then switched it over to an entirely different machine, a P3 1.0ghz that was running my older version of SME so there would be no common hardware at all, and it still does it.

The only thing I haven't done is do a fresh install of the OS.

Has anyone else experienced this or have any ideas?

"switched it over to an entirely different machine" are you saying you put the hard driving into a different chassis? If so I think your first course of action should be a clean install.

Dave

[bizell]

Dave,

Thanks for the reply. I indeed did move just the harddrive over to other box.  I was trying to avoid a reinstall as I didn't have a backup yet of the user/group data I had entered, and everytime I would try to do a backup the connection would time out. After I moved the drive, I did a reconfigure, and it seemed to take to it just fine, as I could test the internet connection from the console itself and it would be successful, just as it was on the original hardware.

Suspecting that you are right, and that a fresh install might help, I went ahead and reloaded it without getting a good backup. I just got done with the fresh install, and so far it seems to have worked itself out. Thanks again for the response.

Travis