Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 01:45:32 -0500 From: Lucas Bergman <iceberg@pobox.com> To: Stephen Hansen <stephen@cerebralmaelstrom.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Windows not working right (Was: NAT Not working right) Message-ID: <20000831014532.A61440@comp04.prc.uic.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008302320570.3109-100000@Jeremy.cerebralmaelstrom.com>; from stephen@cerebralmaelstrom.com on Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 11:32:06PM -0700 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008302320570.3109-100000@Jeremy.cerebralmaelstrom.com>
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> I'm on a FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE system, which was recently CVSupdated as
> of yesterday. I have my FreeBSD system connected to the internet via
> a cable connection, and there is a Win98 box connecting through NAT.
>
> [snip]
>
> Now, it all works just fine and perfectly -- the problem is, if my
> FreeBSD box reboots, the other machine can't access the internet
> until /it/ reboots.
I've noticed the same thing. Unless someone knows something about
this that I don't, you're emailing the wrong people: It sounds more
like you've exposed a bug in Microsoft's TCP/IP implementation than
one in FreeBSD's NAT implementation.
> What can I do to fix this?
This may sound a little too pithy, but it's the way I fixed the
problem: Don't reboot your FreeBSD box. There's really no reason to
do so, except every few months when I tinker with the hardware or
update the kernel.
Lucas
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Northwestern University
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