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Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 01:28:34 -0400 (EDT)
From: Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To: Richard Lucas <rlucas@threeh.com>
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Subject: Re: Network problem?
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If arp was hanging, it could be a DNS issue.  You might try arp -a -n when
you get things working again.  Problems with DNS on the client side can
often lead to connectivity issues where as server side DNS issues often
manifest themselves as performance problems.

Glad things are working for you again.

Joe Clarke

On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Richard Lucas wrote:

>
> Quoting Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>:
>
> > If you do an arp -a on the FreeBSD box, does it know the gateway's MAC
> > address?  Do you have any firewall rules loaded that could be interfering?
> > What do you have configured on the FreeBSD box?
> >
>
> When I did an arp -a it knew the mac address but it sit there for a long time
> before it responded and gave me the list. Same thing with netstat. It's fixed
> now though, I put in a different nic card and recompiled the kernel and it's
> working. I'm not sure if it was the nic card or possibly the driver got
> corrupted?
>
> I'll try the card in another machine and check it out later though to be sure.
> Thanks to all the people that emailed me giving me suggestions.
>
>
> -Richard
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