[PLUG] Network gets slow after a few days...

[Terry Griffin]

Are you running portmap? If so, try restarting just that and see if it helps.

Terry

On Friday 14 March 2003 11:03 pm, Phil Tomson wrote:
> I've been having this problem where my network gets slow (and ping drops a
> lot of packets) after 3-4 days.
> I found that if I rebooted the machine that does the IP masquerading that
> the problem clears up.  Tonight I tried restarting the network script on
> that machine as opposed to rebooting ( #init.d/network restart) and that
> did the trick.  Prior to this I was looking for traffic with tcpdump, but
> didn't find anything all that interesting (I was thinking that I'd find
> that something was sending a lot of data around but I didn't notice
> anything unusual).
>
> Any ideas why I would need to restart the network script on this
> machine every few days?
>
> Phil
>
>
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