Network Slowdowns?

[Jamie]

In <4526d5b6$0$790$415eb37d at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Bill Hacker <wbh at xxxxxxxxxxxxx> mentions:
>Jamie wrote:
>
>> Curious if anyone else has experienced this:
>> 
>*snip* (details)
>
>Looks suspiciously like a DoS attack

Referring to the freeze ups? 

>OR a service run amok
>
>- What is your firewall logging?

Tons of connections going in and out just before the lockup periods. (way
more than I could actually read the log for.

Unfortunately, I can't seem to duplicate it. Although, reducing
the number of connections did make the problem go away.

>
>- what is 'top' showing?

Load averags, top, etc.. had all shown normal activity, even when
the network was "frozen".

It's sounding to me like these are two separate things though.

Jamie
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