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Date:      Thu, 20 Jun 1996 18:20:28 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de
Cc:        klam@awod.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: pcbridge woes (is it FreeBSD?)
Message-ID:  <199606200850.SAA05961@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199606200715.JAA16480@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> from "Christoph P. Kukulies" at Jun 20, 96 09:15:57 am

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Christoph P. Kukulies stands accused of saying:
> 
> 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.

Sounds like the FreeBSD box failed when it arped for the other box, and
was remembering the failure.

If I ping a nonexistent host here, after a few seconds timeout I get 
'host is down'.  If I ping again, I get 'host is down' straight away.

If I then say 'arp -a', and ping again, the timeout reoccurs.

If I wait a few seconds (maybe 10 or so), then the BSD box re-arps and
things work again.

I don't know if this was your problem.

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

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