Sometime when strange network issues prevail it is good to run a ping with a larger buffer size.
Most of the time normal ping sends 32 bytes of data over the network and will make the network appear available.
Most networks have a MTU in the vicinity of 1500 bytes, thus using a buffer size of 2048 will assist in showing if routers on the network is breaking packet and reassembling them correctly.
Someone suggested the following books that I would like to read somewhere this year.
- Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking – Susan Cain
- The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business - Patrick Lencioni
Hope fully this is not the last of many fulfilling blogs that will come.