From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 11 11:41:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.nettoll.com (matrix.fr.uu.net [212.155.143.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33D0537B69E for ; Fri, 11 Aug 2000 11:41:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from usebsd@free.fr) Received: by smtp.nettoll.com; Fri, 11 Aug 2000 20:36:32 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <4.3.0.20000811203808.025265d0@pop.free.fr> X-Sender: usebsd@pop.free.fr X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3 Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 20:46:58 +0200 To: Darren Pilgrim , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: mouss Subject: Re: A very strange problem when changing IPs In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG just an idea: a possible cause woud be that there is another host using this IP address. have you waited long enough after the reboot to see if problems do not reappear? indeed, ethernet packets are addressed using the MAC address, so if *.9 was assigned to another host, packets will be sent to this host. To check that, use *.8, and try to ping *.9, or check the arp table of another host (arp -a). also, use tcpdump/tcpshow to see if packets are sent in both directions. This actually will show you the ethernet address used in the packets. hope this helps, mouss To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message