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Flaky network connection from SUSE Nbg Frankencampus for okurz and mkittler size:M

Added by okurz over 1 year ago. Updated 11 months ago.

Status:
Resolved
Priority:
Normal
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Start date:
2023-01-03
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0%

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Description

Observation

Over the day of 2023-01-03 I was in SUSE Nbg Frankencampus. Connected with my notebook over WiFi, IPv4 only as apparently IPv6 is not served at Frankencampus. During my work day I had multiple complete connection drops each about 2m long. This caused outages during video-conferences, problems to connect to https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/suse_qe_tools and dropped my SSH connections as well as listening to online music, maybe the best "monitoring" approach for me to realize when there are problems. Trying to fix this problem I hope I can also learn to become better at debugging network problems as we have also in other cases, e.g. see #107062

Acceptance criteria

  • AC1: No obvious 2min network outages for okurz in Frankencampus office
  • AC2: Someone has learned something about how to debug network problems

Suggestions

  • Run mtr to various connection endpoints to narrow down the problem
  • Check system log files and openVPN logs
  • Document findings in the ticket how I narrowed down problems
  • Find "industry best practices" how to debug such problems
  • Crosscheck from a different network location, e.g. homeoffice
  • Confirm that it's not just okurz having misconfigured things
  • Reach out to IT to get the problem fixed
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