Loop troubleshooting

Does anyone know how to troubleshoot a loop or see if one really exists. I started at a new company and there seems to be some slowness issues. This morning I tried to do a ping for a test and received a message back that the TTL expired in transit. Any debugging I should be doing to figure this out? Any help would be great.
Thanks!

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Comments

Aldur

Traceroute is a good place to start.

networker050184

Aldur wrote: »

Traceroute is a good place to start.

+1

If you are getting TTL expired it may be getting routed back and forth between two devices. The traceroute should show you where.

Hyper-Me

If your switches are locking up you can unplug each IDF link until it returns to normal to isolate it in the building...well thats assuming its in one building/area.

Thats the redneck way our network team does it.

hypnotoad

show port statistics and see if any ports are reporting excessive traffic and/or spanning-tree issues. making a diagram helps too.

bmwagner

That pointed it out exactly!!! I was trying to think to hard about it. Hate when that happens!