Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 16:58:08 -0600 (MDT) From: Nick Rogness <nick@rapidnet.com> To: "TAZ Gravel, Emmanuel" <EGravel@taz.telusa.com> Cc: "'freebsd-net@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-net@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Weirdness in small network Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10005111655470.68696-100000@rapidnet.com> In-Reply-To: <6BFFC6F3FB6AD211A9D800A0C99B3E6F014A4123@TEAPHX0031>
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On Thu, 11 May 2000, TAZ Gravel, Emmanuel wrote: > I have a small network of about 20 machines, running many Unix-like > OS'es of different age (some as old as over 10 years, discontinued). > Something strange happened recently: two of the machines can't > talk to each other, but can talk to the rest of the network. The network > is primarily coax (10b2) but has a hub here and there, to add machines > that have 10bT interfaces. All machines in the same network address > space, and all have same netmask, so routing and other networking > issues aren't a problem. Pinging doesn't work between each other > (host unreachable) but can ping anywhere else in the network. Both > machines are in the middle of the chain so hardware problems aren't > an issue. > Anyone have any idea what this could be? Ethernet Card went bad. cable termination problem?? WHat has changed? IP stack problem...run tcpdump to see if you are recieving packets at all. Nick Rogness - Speak softly and carry a Gigabit switch. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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