connection keeps dropping

[George_Dodds]

Hi

I have an L2000 running 11.00.

when using putty to connect to the server i keep losing the connection, other users have reported the same and i have a script that rpc's files from another server that has been failing.

I've checked the logs but cant see anything useful in there.

The network admin has checked his side out and we cannot see any issues. we arent getting any packet loss on pings and there arent any interface problems.

This is all on one lan so there is no firewall involved, all other servers are ok.

Any ideas??

[Arunvijai_4]

George, have you checked this threads,
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=723359

-Arun

[RAC_1]

Enable syslog. inetd -l

What are the messages do you get?

[George_Dodds]

Interface settings are ok and there isnt any great amount of network traffic as this is a cold spare server for our prod setup.

[George_Dodds]

I have enabled connection logging, but it doesnt show the disconnects and the reason for them.

[Arunvijai_4]

Any timeout variable specified in profile ?

-Arun

[George_Dodds]

the disconects seem to be variable.

[Arunvijai_4]

What is that ?? Can you comment it out and check ?

(Assign points if posts are useful)

-Arun

[George_Dodds]

The length of time till i get disconected varies.

Sometimes i lose connection withing 2 minutes, other times it's 10+ minutes.

[George_Dodds]

I've noticed that when i telnet to the box it sometimes takes 2 attempts to establish connection.

[Duncan Edmonstone · Accepted solution]

Could be a duplicate IP address on the LAN?

Also have a look at the statistics for your lan card using lanadmin - are you seeing any errors?

HTH

Duncan

[Arunvijai_4]

Have you restarted Inted ?
# /sbin/init.d/inetd stop|start

-Arun

[George_Dodds]

this has got a tad more interesting

i have

server1
server2
server3 Affected server

server 1 & 2 can ping server 3 fine.

server 3 can ping server 2 but not server 1.

All are on the same lan and host files are fine

[George_Dodds]

lanadmin shows no errors and the server was rebooted this morning to sort out a db issue.

[George_Dodds]

There was a linux box that used to mimic the HP server for a previous issue, it looks like the interface details were not deleted.

When the linux box was rebooted a yesterday the virtual interface came up so it was in conflict with the HP server.

The Linux admin has deleted the interface and all is well.

THanks folks :)