From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jan 25 21: 2:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from www.golsyd.net.au (ftp.golsyd.net.au [203.57.20.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABBC237B400 for ; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 21:01:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from [203.164.12.28] by www.quake.com.au (NTMail 4.30.0012/AH9370.63.d1acf55c) with ESMTP id dgwsaaaa for ; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 16:10:31 +1100 Message-ID: <3A7104CE.3EF662AD@quake.com.au> Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 16:02:06 +1100 From: Kal Torak X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jon Hamilton Cc: Stephen Montgomery-Smith , Luc Morin , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Network stops working References: <20010125195256.67841201@woodstock.monkey.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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