From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 20 01:21:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA25837 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 01:21:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id BAA25831 for ; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 01:21:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id SAA05961; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 18:20:29 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199606200850.SAA05961@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: pcbridge woes (is it FreeBSD?) To: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 18:20:28 +0930 (CST) Cc: klam@awod.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199606200715.JAA16480@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> from "Christoph P. Kukulies" at Jun 20, 96 09:15:57 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[