Intermittent problems with LAN transfer speeds

["." at babolo.ru]

> On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 00:48:26 +0300 (MSK)
> . at babolo.ru wrote:
> > Does
> > ifconfig xx down; ifconfig xx up
> > helps?
> Tried that many many times; no effect.
>  
> > Can be packet loss triggered by a lot of small
> > packets on this interface?
> Not that I've noticed. Any suggestions on how to test this effectively?
I have router with some ste interfaces, simple try
to ping /23 at once effectively shuts perfomanse
forever, down/up restores.