Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:43:04 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com> Cc: net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Marvell chipsets on 8-CURRENT and XP x64 won't talk with one another Message-ID: <47194F18.3010303@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <20071019182349.J97691@odysseus.silby.com> References: <A47860E0-1E9E-46B2-AFB4-7FE3DF7911C9@u.washington.edu> <20071019182349.J97691@odysseus.silby.com>
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Mike Silbersack wrote:
>
> On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Garrett Cooper wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> In an effort to connect my 2 machines up -- the FreeBSD 8-CURRENT
>> and the Windows box, for filesharing via SMB I've installed samba3
>> and done that song and dance to get things to work. The really weird
>> thing is that my 2 machines will talk via ICMP with one another, but
>> not via TCP and/or UDP (connections time out). Thinking that it was
>> just a samba3 issue, I tried ssh as well (Cygwin installed), and ssh
>> connections (Windows to FreeBSD) fails with connection timeouts as well.
>> Both machines have Marvell onboard chipsets and will communicate
>> with my Mac OSX 10.4.9 iBook (has a Broadcom chipset) without issue
>> (in fact that's what I'm using as my 'bridge' right now). I tried
>> also using an SMB client via my Xbox but that failed as well (then
>> again the XBMC SMB client tended to be really quirky if setup
>> incorrectly).
>> I'm not sure where to start, so if there are any ideas I'd be
>> more than happy to hear them. This issue has been occurring from
>> 7-CURRENT built in late September to 8-CURRENT built 6 days ago.
>> Thanks,
>> -Garrett
>
> Just to clarify, how are the two hooked together? Is it over gigabit
> switch, a 10mbps hub, or directly cabled together?
>
> -Mike
To make things more interesting, both machines are hooked up using
private IPs, and neither machine has a true router setup (I did put in a
dummy gateway though because the Windows machine and the FreeBSD
machines weren't setting the default route to the private subnet properly).
-Garrett
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