From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 4 09:34:21 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DA3337B401 for ; Fri, 4 Apr 2003 09:34:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from lv.raad.tartu.ee (lv.raad.tartu.ee [194.126.106.110]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51DA143FCB for ; Fri, 4 Apr 2003 09:34:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee) Received: Message by Barricade lv.raad.tartu.ee with ESMTP id h34HYGH05725; Fri, 4 Apr 2003 20:34:16 +0300 Message-Id: <200304041734.h34HYGH05725@lv.raad.tartu.ee> Received: from INFO/SpoolDir by raad.tartu.ee (Mercury 1.48); 4 Apr 03 20:34:05 +0300 Received: from SpoolDir by INFO (Mercury 1.48); 4 Apr 03 20:33:37 +0300 From: "Toomas Aas" Organization: Tartu City Government To: "J. Seth Henry" , questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 20:33:30 +0300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Priority: normal In-reply-to: <20030402104502.M7823-100000@whitetower.gambrl01.md.comcast.net> Subject: Re: SSH failing randomly in 4.7-REL X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2003 17:34:21 -0000 Hi! > All of these machines have identical hardware. They use Linksys USB100TX > USB network interfaces, and are on a 100Mb ethernet segment. The machines > themselves are AMD K6-2+ systems, with 32Mb of RAM. The boot volume is a > 16Mb sandisk, and they mount everything but /etc, /dev, and /boot from a > microdrive. I don't have any experience at all with USB Ethernet devices or DHCP so I apologize in advance if my comments are totally irrelevant. What driver are these Linksys devices using? Is it dc? I've seen a lot of messages in the list about some problem with Linksys NICs using dc driver, where the MAC address is incorrectly set as 08:00:08:00:08:00. If there are multiple devices with identical MAC addresses on the same wire, then there can certainly be strange networking issues. Another thing that can cause the "host is not on local network" message might be an incorrectly set netmask. ifconfig output from some of these machines would be interesting. -- Toomas Aas | toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ * User Error: Replace user.