From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 19 15:17:08 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA07455 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 19 Apr 1996 15:17:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (palmer.demon.co.uk [158.152.50.150]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA07444 for ; Fri, 19 Apr 1996 15:17:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palmer.demon.co.uk (sendmail/PALMER-1) with SMTP id XAA05641 ; Fri, 19 Apr 1996 23:16:19 +0100 (BST) To: Geoff Wells cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: Routing problem. In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 19 Apr 1996 17:25:18 EDT." Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 23:16:18 +0100 Message-ID: <5639.829952178@palmer.demon.co.uk> Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Geoff Wells wrote in message ID : > Hi, > Just w > anted to know if anyone has seen this before. I'm running a 2.1 system > (486/33, 1 gig IDE) and have the following problem. When the machine > boots no machine on the segment can contact it but as soon as I ping > anything on the segment it seems to come alive and begins behaving normally. > It would seem that this is a routing problem but the routing tables look > the same before the ping as after. I know I've seen this problem on a > SUN (Solaris 2.4) once before but I can't remember what was done to fix > it. Any help is always welcome. You don't really give enough info to diagnose this properly, but one question asks itself: do you use a 10bT hub or similar? It could be the hub. Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD - Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info.