[nzlug] Ping/Traceroute issue.. Nagios involved.. VMWareinvolved..

[Robin Sheat]

On Thursday 13 December 2007 11:24:46 Michael Hutchinson wrote:
> I am not willing to install Wireshark on our server bob as it is
> considered a production server, and the pre-requisites for Wireshark
> would mean installing software that we do not want on there.
Fair enough. Wireshark can work with tcpdump files. Tcpdump on it's own may be 
sufficient, given you're not dealing with a lot of data. 'tcpdump -s 2048 -w 
file' will produce a file you can import into wireshark for viewing later. Or 
leave of the -w and see the data as it goes.

tcpdump will be easy to install, if it's not there already.

> I am thinking it may have something to do with netmask's, but am unsure
> whether this could affect ping. My knowledge of appropriate netmasks to
A netmask could affect ping, but it would be weird for it to be intermittent.

Hey, a thought, it's not a machine with an incorrect IP address that's only on 
sometimes is it? If another machine with the same IP address as another came 
online, it could cause weirdness.

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