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There could still be a bandwidth issue due to users running limewire to search for porn/songs, etc.
I would post your configs, and get ip accounting / netflow configured on both routers asap to narrow down what is running.
-Joe
—–Original Message—– From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of groupstudy email Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2008 10:16 AM To: Joseph Brunner Cc: ccielab@groupstudy.com Subject: Re: Very Strange Issue
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 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! > > > Blogs and organic groups at http://www.ccie.net > > _______________________________________________________________________ > Subscription information may be found at: > http://www.groupstudy.com/list/CCIELab.html
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