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Date:      Thu, 20 Jun 1996 09:15:57 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
To:        klam@awod.com (Ken Lam)
Cc:        kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: pcbridge woes (is it FreeBSD?)
Message-ID:  <199606200715.JAA16480@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.32.19960619223756.00953914@awod.com>

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> 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?

Correction: The program being used is kbridge, not pcbridge - sorry.

I could not test samba from other machines at that time but I was able
to observe that other machines could still reach that PC behind the
bridge by ping while FreeBSD said: 'host is down' when pinging.


> 

--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de



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