From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Oct 20 19:51: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from velvet.sensation.net.au (serial1-2-velvet-brunswick.sensation.net.au [203.20.114.195]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E70137B403 for ; Sat, 20 Oct 2001 19:51:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (rowan@localhost) by velvet.sensation.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA36404 for ; Sun, 21 Oct 2001 12:51:05 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from rowan@sensation.net.au) X-Authentication-Warning: velvet.sensation.net.au: rowan owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 12:51:05 +1000 (EST) From: Rowan Crowe To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: arplookup failed: In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 20 Oct 2001, Jim Weeks wrote: > A traceroute from my server back to the offending machine travels through > my default gateway, which is how it should be, I think. Or shouldn't the > trace also show the gateway for the offending machine? Hello Jim, Are you able to trace back from the other end? That's what I was getting at. If you can't, then use tcpdump -e to compare ethernet addresses; see if the packets FROM the other server have the source ethernet address of your gateway. If not, then something is funny (like the host sending directly...) Cheers. -- Rowan Crowe camrecord.com / camdiscover.com / Sensation Internet Services Melbourne, Australia To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message