Clayton wrote:
OK... but what confuses me about all this is it's not a 100% drop. Torrents are not interrupted, VoIP calls are not interrupted and there is no quality drop during a call while this is happening. Online gaming never hiccups either, and that is particularly susceptible to network latency and disconnects.
Yet you can't ping anything or anyone? That would appear to suggest that ICMP traffic is blocked, whilst UDP and TCP keeps working .... weird. The question is - you say that torrents, voip and games are not interrupted, but do they all keep going?
Yes, that is correct.. during the 30 to 60 second outage, I cannot ping anyone outside my local LAN. I used several IPs that responded to pings while things were working normally.
Okay, so contrary to indication, your internet connection is still up when this happens. What happens if you do a "ping -n <known addr>" ? If that also doesn't work, try "traceroute -n <known addr>". If ICMPs for some reason are being dropped during one of these outages, the "ping -n" wont work either, but the "traceroute -n" might just show how far they do get. /Per -- Per Jessen, Zürich (16.7°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org