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To: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
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Subject: Re: Bizarro bug in 2.1.6 that's had me stumped for ages... 
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Date: Mon, 02 Dec 1996 17:42:56 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> Does "ifconfig sl0 down; ifconfig sl0 up" help, or do you have to kill
> and restart slattach?

I have to kill and restart slattach.  I tried the down/up trick too. :-(

> Does "ifconfig sl0 delete; ifconfig sl0 address rmtaddr" help?

I haven't tried that.  I will give it a shot next time it goes
tango-uniform on me.

> When you're experiencing the problem, what do packets going out the
> line sourced from your machine look like?  (e.g. tcpdump -n -i sl0 icmp;
> ping somehost).

They apparently don't even *try* to go out the interface! :( It's
apparently something farther up the line saying "no, it's dead, let it
rest in peace."

						Jordan