Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 19:27:20 +0200 From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: pcbridge woes (is it FreeBSD?) Message-ID: <199606191727.TAA14537@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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We have an ethernet branch being separated via a 286 based PC running the well known pcbridge product. I didn't like that solution peculiarly and it more frequently now is causing headaches. One major reason why it was introduced was the fact that the DOS/Win machines otherwise would be slowed down by the heavy network traffic (I was told) - I didn't see that in fact myself, but that's what they said. Now I established a samba printer via FreeBSD (2.2-current) to a DOS/WfW311 box laying behind that PCBridge. What happens is that the DOS box cannot be reached anymore after a few network transfers have been made, say, a print job has been transfered. Then the machine cannot be reached via ping any more. Booting the box sometimes helps, as well as rebooting the bridge. But the picture is fuzzy. The funny thing is that other machines (Linux as well) still can reach the box. I'm really puzzled. OK, I'm working into a direction to make this PCBridge go away just because it is always causing trouble but I still wonder what the cause for this could be. --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
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