Hey, i recently encountered internet errors that my provider couldnt fix for more than a month. Sympthoms are a whole lot of FEC and CRC errors, and after a while connection to my dns becomes impossible too. But around 11 pm all these issues suddenly stop, the line becomes crystal clear. It could still be a noisy line but all the cables were replaced already, nobody around me reports errors. My modem log displays this often, when the problems happen: 2017-02-20T23:03:27Z [Warning] IPV4 SIP UDP attack. The line is adsl with voip. Could this be a false positive? Could someone please explain how i check this using wireshark? ( Or how can i save logs for someone expert to check) Please note that i am just an end-user, i have no knowledge about networking. asked 21 Feb '17, 07:23  Casthaneda edited 21 Feb '17, 07:24 |
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FEC and CRC errors are usually a Layer 1 or 2 error. Possible faulty cabling or bad cable/switch connection. If you've already replaced the cabling, look at the wires on your switch/router which that network cable is plugged into. Perhaps you have one pin partially bent? It might also be a faulty\buggy switch/router port driver bug which only occurs when {something or another} gets over a certain level. Cheers, answered 21 Mar '17, 00:31  wbenton |
Hey, thanks for the reply, the issue is gone but i actually had to change network provider. But the issue is still a mistery to everyone including the technicians from my old service provider.
To sum it up: the modem/router was 1 month old functioned perfectly outside of certain timeframes, same for the cables and wires, my old provider had everything replaced, and had me put on a different line even. The issue surely wasnt related to my own network traffic since that was usually higher outside of the problematic tiimeframes.
Another weird thing i noticed on wireshark is that according to it my pc initiated "open vpn" connection to an unidentified brittish ip, i never had any kind of vpn installed on my current system, should i be worried by that or open vpn is something other applications might use?
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