iptrace?

[Dotan Cohen]

2008/7/3 Victor Padro <vpadro at gmail.com>:
>> I have, but that is not in the budget. I'd like to connect without the
>> router to test, but my ISP needs a Windows-only 'dialer' to connect.
>> The router can also connect. I've gone nuts trying to connect with
>> Fedora and Ubuntu without the router, so much, that I bought a router!
>
> Have you tried using a windows box?

I don't have one!

> I tell you this because, could be remotely that your adapter is not well
> configured in linux...kinda last thingy, right?
>

Adapter? Do you mean the NIC card? More than one machine on the
network is displaying symptoms.

> That sucks, you know...
> What kind of cable modem do you use?
>

I forgot the name of it, I'll check when I get home (I'm at the university now).

> wireshark will see what's going on between your adapter on the PC/Laptop and
> the destination IP that includes, your router, your modem, ISPs routers,
> destination routers, etc. and will tell you if there are lost packets,
> missing hops, etc.
> more detailed info here: http://www.wireshark.org/about.html
> I prefer checking out all the gear first, beacuse you already made a trace
> route, and it seems that your connection to the ISP its faulty, too many
> miliseconds gone.
>

Thanks, I'd love to use wireshark but I do not have a degree in
network engineering. I usually have no problem learning anything new,
but with wireshark I am having problems finding an introduction or
tutorial that does not assume prior knowledge. I understand that it is
a complicated tool and I don't expect to master it wholly quickly, nor
do I want to, but for simply determining where the packets are getting
lost between myself and any given site or IP it seems too much.

> I meant the coaxial cable that comes from the street to your modem/TV set,
> you won't be able to do this, let that thing to the cable company, you could
> get harm if you touch those cables, they are not insolated from the
> electricity.
>

I called the ISP and they want to do a battery of tests before the
send a tech. Those tests mean that a minimum-wage idiot tells me to
click here, download and run this, click here. It's Windows-only, in
other words. They don't 'support' Linux.

Dotan Cohen

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