From owner-freebsd-hackers  Thu Jun 20 00:38:39 1996
Return-Path: owner-hackers
Received: (from root@localhost)
          by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA24239
          for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 00:38:39 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from mail.rwth-aachen.de (mail.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.144.9])
          by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA24234
          for <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 00:38:36 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de)
 by mail.rwth-aachen.de (PMDF V5.0-4 #13110)
 id <01I64K37MS1S002UMH@mail.rwth-aachen.de>; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 09:07:25 +0100
Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de
 (8.6.11/8.6.9) id JAA16480; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 09:15:58 +0200
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 09:15:57 +0200 (MET DST)
From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
Subject: Re: pcbridge woes (is it FreeBSD?)
In-reply-to: <1.5.4.32.19960619223756.00953914@awod.com>
To: klam@awod.com (Ken Lam)
Cc: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Reply-to: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
Message-id: <199606200715.JAA16480@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
MIME-version: 1.0
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL16 (25)]
Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit
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?

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