Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 16:02:06 +1100 From: Kal Torak <kaltorak@quake.com.au> To: Jon Hamilton <hamilton@pobox.com> Cc: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu>, Luc Morin <luc_m@videotron.ca>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Network stops working Message-ID: <3A7104CE.3EF662AD@quake.com.au> References: <20010125195256.67841201@woodstock.monkey.net>
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> At home: gets IP address from DHCP server fine. Can connect to various > other machines on the subnet ok. Can ssh to various machines both on the > home LAN and outside the NATted subnet, but cannot connect from other machines > to the laptop. Packets come in, but for some reason (according to both > the ipfw logs and tcpdump) the kernel on the laptop doesn't seem to respond > with outgoing packets at all. The firewall is not blocking the packets; they > don't even get that far (tested by logging all traffic to/from all interfaces > on the laptop). This bizarreness holds for TCP and ICMP traffic. The odd > thing is, for "outgoing" connections (ssh from laptop to server) everything > is fine; traffic moves just fine both directions. This sounds like the driver isnt detecting the MAC address correctly... There was a problem with some new netgear and cards that used the same chip recently like that, it has been fixed but maybe this is a new one... You should probably file a PR about it since its only in the newer stable! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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