Tech Blog » networking http://informationideas.com/news Using technology to help your business Sat, 17 Mar 2012 02:14:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Server Sporadically Responding To Pings http://informationideas.com/news/2008/02/07/server-sporadically-responding-to-pings/ http://informationideas.com/news/2008/02/07/server-sporadically-responding-to-pings/#comments Thu, 07 Feb 2008 23:11:49 +0000 frank http://informationideas.com/news/2008/02/07/server-sporadically-responding-to-pings/

Mystery solved.  One of our servers became very sluggish in responding to requests.  When I tested the server by pinging continuously, request timed out for about 10% of the pings.  It turned out that the NIC was malfunctioning.  Replaced the ethernet card and all is well again.

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