Re: [gentoo-user] Packet loss unknown issue

[Robert Svoboda <r080@atlas.cz>]

* José Pedro Saraiva <nocive@gmail.com> [2005-07-12 23:30]:
> Hello,

Hi,

> I connect to the net through eth0 and have a masquerading
> through eth1 to my other computers, using shorewall.  

Uh, I'm not sure i understand you.

your localhost eth0 -> shorewall -> Inet
your localhost eth1 -> shorewall -> your other machines

Is above right?
What address ranges do you use?

> My server never had any problems of this kind and all was
> fine until a couple of days ago. I'm experiencing some heavy
> packet loss when pinging different hosts.  I have isolated
> the problem (at least I think I did) and got to the
> conclusion that issuing a simple 'ifconfig eth1 down' and
> leaving eth0 up, the packet loss vanishes.  Tests were made
> with all services down (shorewall, sshd, apache2, mysqld,
> proftpd, sendmail, ...)

What about routing? As root run:
$ route

or tracepath?
$ tracepath google.com

Robert
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