From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 19 15:38:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA00232 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 19 Jun 1996 15:38:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sumter.awod.com (awod.com [198.81.225.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA00227 for ; Wed, 19 Jun 1996 15:38:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Ken (tsunami.awod.com [198.81.225.31]) by sumter.awod.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id SAA02940; Wed, 19 Jun 1996 18:37:27 -0400 Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.19960619223756.00953914@awod.com> X-Sender: klam@awod.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 18:37:56 -0400 To: "Christoph P. Kukulies" From: Ken Lam Subject: Re: pcbridge woes (is it FreeBSD?) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 07:27 PM 6/19/96 +0200, you wrote: [stuff deleted] >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. indicates that it isn't truly a problem with the PCbridge (I used to use that program until karlbridge became available) if other machines can still work through the bridge. What about machines on the same segment as the FreeBSD machine, does samba work fine for them? >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.