Bandwidth problems slowing down the server performance

ravilohot · 10-13-2005, 05:46 AM

my server has both local users and remote users connected thro leased lines and dial-up , the problem is with remote users , the local users of the LAN can access the server and work they have no performance issue , but the remote users cannot login and even if they do the application runs too slowly. when i checked the bandwidth ( thro which remote users get connected to server )it shows 95% utilization and all r outgoing data from the server. this is happening when no remote users r connected , and even when my server is idle 95 -97 %.
the bandwidth provider says my server is broadcasting something or sending something thro the router towards the 2 remote tunnels which is jamming the bandwidth and creating performance related problem , the same server was working superbly on the same bandwidth till yesterday.
i want help in knowing how do i check whether my server is really broadcasting or not , if so how can i stop it from doing it coz i don't need it to broadcast itself. or is it some sort of virus which is creating problems , i had checked with my LAN and also with the 2 remote LAN which are connected to server thro leased line whose bandwidth utilization has suddently increased to 96 % from 43 % in 24 hours
if any body out there have faced a similar problem please guide me thro this.
thanks

Agrouf · 10-13-2005, 02:07 PM

What about ethereal or tethereal?

ravilohot · 10-15-2005, 11:52 PM

Checked with ethereal , it showed an outgoing traffic from eth0 , so checked with the services it showed The server is running with the following services,
1, autofs, cups, cups-lpd, httpd, imap, imaps, nfs, random, rawdevices,
xfs, oracle, oracle-httpd, java, jre, j60webwx. and The server with 2 default gw enabled.

so temporarily
we removed the one default route from the server, which have one
unwanted route
and stopped the nfs and httpd service.

the performance has improed to some extent just monitoring it , but the problem is all this services were enable b4 also and still the server was performaing very well , couldnt find out what triggred the server to behave in such a manner.???

Anyways thanks for the help