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Date:      Sun, 26 Nov 2000 13:58:20 -0500 (EST)
From:      Jim Freeze <jim@freeze.org>
To:        cjclark@alum.mit.edu
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Need help with natd and connecting Windows to LAN
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011261356410.34230-100000@www.bellnetworks.net>
In-Reply-To: <20001126105512.A34151@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com>

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Hi Crist:

My gateway inside nic is a LinkSys network card.
The pc nic is a Netgear FA311 card.

What other info do you need?

Jim


On Sun, 26 Nov 2000, Crist J . Clark wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 01:16:47PM -0500, Jim Freeze wrote:
> > 
> > > If you do a 'tcpdump -eni al0' while you try both the ping from the
> > > gateway to the Win98 box and the other way, what do you see?
> > 
> > Here is what I get when pinging from W98(192.168.1.2) to
> > FreeBSD(192.168.1.1) - W98 ping reports "Request timed out" as before:
> > 
> > root@eeyore1 ('tty') /usr/home/jfreeze 1 -> tcpdump -eni al0
> > tcpdump: listening on al0
> > 13:15:16.269835 19:2:16:8:1:2 ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff 0806 60: arp who-has
> > 192.168.1.1 tell 192.168.1.2
> > 13:15:16.269892 ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff 19:2:16:8:1:2 0806 60: arp reply
> > 192.168.1.1 is-at ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
> > 13:15:20.553363 19:2:16:8:1:2 ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff 0806 60: arp who-has
> > 192.168.1.1 tell 192.168.1.2
> > 13:15:20.553390 ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff 19:2:16:8:1:2 0806 60: arp reply
> > 192.168.1.1 is-at ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
> > 13:15:25.052420 19:2:16:8:1:2 ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff 0806 60: arp who-has
> > 192.168.1.1 tell 192.168.1.2
> > 13:15:25.052442 ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff 19:2:16:8:1:2 0806 60: arp reply
> > 192.168.1.1 is-at ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
> > 13:15:29.551832 19:2:16:8:1:2 ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff 0806 60: arp who-has
> > 192.168.1.1 tell 192.168.1.2
> > 13:15:29.551857 ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff 19:2:16:8:1:2 0806 60: arp reply
> > 192.168.1.1 is-at ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff 
> 
> There is something pretty funky going on here. The first thing, and I
> think it is the cause of the problem, is what I pointed out in the
> previous mail. It looks like your al0 NIC seems to believe that its
> MAC address is ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff, the broadcast address. And it looks
> like the Win98 machine is not buying that. Now, the Win98
> machine... what kind of card does it have? I can't seem to find a
> manufacturer who has the 19:02:16 prefix. Something weird is going on.
> 
> All of this is a problem at the data layer and has nothing to do with
> your IP settings, NAT, etc.
> 
> > On Sat, 25 Nov 2000, Crist J . Clark wrote:
> > 
> > > On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 01:06:51AM -0500, Jim Freeze wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > > The configs look OK. But...
> > > 
> > > > root@eeyore1 ('tty') ~ 17 -> ifconfig -a
> > > > vx0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> > > >         inet 24.9.218.175 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 24.9.218.255
> > > >         ether 00:60:97:4f:aa:a0
> > > > al0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> > > >         inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
> > > >         ether ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
> > >                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > > This does not look at all right.
> -- 
> Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@alum.mit.edu
> 


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