From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 23 17:45:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA04369 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 23 Aug 1996 17:45:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts15-line1.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.184]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA04353 for ; Fri, 23 Aug 1996 17:45:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id RAA00279; Fri, 23 Aug 1996 17:45:26 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 17:45:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Dave Andersen cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Interesting habit on a -current box In-Reply-To: <199608201859.MAA21464@terra.aros.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 20 Aug 1996, Dave Andersen wrote: > Lo and behold, Doug White once said: > > > > I seem to remember having that problem before, but it's usually the Mac > > that craps out. In all cases it was an IP clash. Did you check that? > > I did.. oh well. :> > > > OK. > > > > What are the machine's IP addresses and network settings? > > 205.164.203.19 = mac > 205.164.203.18 = FreeBSD box. > > Both machines have a netmask of 255.255.255.248, > the mac believes the FreeBSD box is the gateway. (.17 was the old > gateway that found itself in early retirement when I brought it in to work). Odd. Is there a machine at 205.164.203.34? Your netmask makes me wonder if the subnet's broadcast address is in use by another machine. What's at .17 now? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major