RE: Very Strange Issue

From: Joseph Brunner (joe@affirmedsystems.com)
Date: Thu Aug 28 2008 - 11:32:20 ART


I agree on that part. but he said the file browse was on citrix - on that I
agree the mtu would be a "prolem"

(there are no "problems" on a board with 1000 CCIES)

 

But why would pings work/not work? Did he set his phase 2 security lifetime
to 2-5 seconds (LOL)

 

Please post your configs!@

 

 

-Joe

  _____

From: Farrukh Haroon [mailto:farrukhharoon@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2008 10:28 AM
To: Joseph Brunner
Cc: groupstudy email; ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: Re: Very Strange Issue

 

" Users in site B keep experiencing slowness and loss of connectivity to all
services,(email, network drives, surfing)."

:P

On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 5:23 PM, Joseph Brunner <joe@affirmedsystems.com>
wrote:

With 100 byte pings?

-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of

Farrukh Haroon
Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2008 10:20 AM
To: groupstudy email

Cc: Joseph Brunner; ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: Re: Very Strange Issue

Could be a MTU related issue.

Regards

Farrukh

On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 5:15 PM, groupstudy email
<groupstudy@gmail.com>wrote:

> Actually, I misspoke. The users are all thin clients. They are using
> citrix.
> Thanks
>
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 10:13 AM, Joseph Brunner <joe@affirmedsystems.com
> >wrote:
>
> > >Users in site B keep experiencing slowness and loss of connectivity to
> all
> > >services,(email, network drives, surfing).
> >
> > Let me get this straight...
> >
> > You are mapping users to "shared drives" over a 768k line, and
> >
> > YOU ARE WONDERING WHY ITS SLOW???
> >
> > it would be slow over a T-1!!!!
> >
> > First, get more bandwidth... cifs & netbios are VERY CHATTY protocols...
> >
> > more chatty than your girlfriend telling you about her day at work...
> >
> > They need lots of bandwidth and or a Riverbed appliance to work well on
> > slow
> > speed wans (i.e. slow speed under 10Mbps), and even then they are not
> > perfect. On 768K they would be absolutely Les Miserable...
> >
> > I ran a 50+ site wan with slow speed links using all these services,
> email,
> > fs, etc...
> >
> > >Two pings work, three don't, two don't, three do.
> > > This is true for any windows server in the network.
> >
> > Perhaps complete saturation of the line... do your users run limewire,
> etc.
> > and download and share mp3's? Time to break out wireshark... here we go
> >
> > Once we do that, lets look at the setup of this vpn to make sure its
> good.
> > Post your configs (hub and site b router) for us. We'll look at.
> > -Joe
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> > groupstudy email
> > Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2008 9:57 AM
> > To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> > Subject: Very Strange Issue
> >
> > Hello All,
> > I have a VPN tunnel between two cisco routers (site A hub side, site B
> > remote side). The remote side is a 768K DSL line.
> >
> > Users in site B keep experiencing slowness and loss of connectivity to
> all
> > services,(email, network drives, surfing). While troubleshooting, we
> issue
> > pings from their machines to the various servers in remote networks.
> Ping
> > results are inconsistent. Two pings work, three don't, two don't, three
> > do.
> > This is true for any windows server in the network.
> >
> > Pings to any Cisco device from the same user machine work completely.
No
> > packet loss at all.
> >
> > I have never seen this before. Any idea why this happens?
> >
> > I have remote connectivity to all devices at site B, it's just slow.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
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