From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 20 01:50:13 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA28476 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 01:50:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.225.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA28359 for ; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 01:49:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.31.2]) by Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (RBI-Z-5/8.6.12) with ESMTP id KAA25659; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 10:41:23 +0200 Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA16782; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 10:54:00 +0200 From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" Message-Id: <199606200854.KAA16782@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Subject: Re: pcbridge woes (is it FreeBSD?) To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 10:53:59 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de, klam@awod.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199606200850.SAA05961@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from Michael Smith at "Jun 20, 96 06:20:28 pm" Reply-To: Christoph Kukulies X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL16 (25)] 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. It looks a bit like this but the symptom was that the host never got reachable again. We moved the DOS box now on the same side of the segment as the FreeBSD box and the problem never occured again. > > > --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 [[ --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de