From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 6 12:15:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA25777 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 6 May 1998 12:15:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rmsq.com (rmsq.com [204.133.95.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA25675 for ; Wed, 6 May 1998 12:14:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from baldrick@rmsq.com) Received: from rmsq.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rmsq.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA08732; Wed, 6 May 1998 13:06:40 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <3550B4BF.4FB981D@rmsq.com> Date: Wed, 06 May 1998 13:06:39 -0600 From: Clod Baldrick Organization: RMS, Longmont CO X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Short CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bizarre routing problem References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks for the suggestion, Andrew. Andrew Short wrote: > Help more....need the ifconfig of the interfaces that are trying to talk > to each other. As a blind guess, make sure they have the same subnet mask > AND broadcast address, because the broadcast address is both the send and > receive address for the arp that goes out when you ping an address onthe > same subnet. If an interface isn't listening on the right broadcast > address, it will go right over the interface and never see that it is > being pinged. Yep, that was one of the things I thought of. FreebSD: tomcat$ ifconfig ed2 ed2: flags=8843 mtu 1500 inet 130.13.21.92 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 130.13.21.255 ether 00:c0:0c:b0:5e:92 Linux: lancaster$ ifconfig eth0 eth0 Link encap:10Mbps Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:24:72:12:A7 inet addr:130.13.21.91 Bcast:130.13.21.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:1330492 errors:65 dropped:65 overruns:0 TX packets:3378032 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 Interrupt:3 Base address:0x360 (BTW: as far as I can tell, the 65 error/dropped packets on this interface are packets that I've sent from tomcat.) Regards. -- Clod Baldrick RMS, Longmont CO To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message