Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 09:19:24 +1100 (EST) From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Bizarro bug in 2.1.6 that's had me stumped for ages... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961203091602.1605k-100000@panda.hilink.com.au> In-Reply-To: <336.849531953@time.cdrom.com>
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On Mon, 2 Dec 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > I kept hoping that this was just me somehow, but after looking and > looking for some sort of misconfiguration and still banging into this > one, I thought I'd finally ask. > > I have a gateway machine with an SMC8216 ethernet card in it and an > ISDN TA hanging off a standard 16550 serial port. It works just > peachy, 99.9% of the time, except after I've really exercised it in > some way (seems to happen most frequently after a make world though > this could just be the sheerest coincidence). The symptom is that > it's suddenly unable to talk to its SLIP interface directly, e.g.: > > root@whisker-> ifconfig -a > .. > sl0: flags=9011<UP,POINTOPOINT,LINK0,MULTICAST> mtu 552 > inet 204.216.27.194 --> 204.216.27.193 netmask 0xfffffff0 > > root@whisker-> ping 204.216.27.193 > PING 204.216.27.193 (204.216.27.193): 56 data bytes > <zilch, nada, zip> This has happened to me. You may remember I posted a month ago about "arpresolve: can't allocate llinfo for ..." errs. Do you get these errors in your log file? It occurs for me only on CSLIP interfaces which are gateways to other networks or subnets - never on a host-only cslip link, and never on a ppp link. Are you running gated? Danny
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