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Date:      Fri, 19 Apr 1996 19:23:43 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Geoff Wells <geoff@ginsu.com>
To:        Gary Palmer <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Routing problem. 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960419191807.7534B-100000@schwing.ginsu.com>
In-Reply-To: <5639.829952178@palmer.demon.co.uk>

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Sorry, I ment to include more but got cut off in the middle (lost my 
train of thought ;).

In any case, I'm not going through a hub.  My setup is a thin net on one 
side of the FreeBSD box and a 28.8 link to the Internet on the other 
side.  I also have two dial-up modems for ppp.  Everything comes up fine 
on a re-boot except nothing on the thin net can see the FreeBSD box.  As 
soon as I do anything that uses the interface on the FreeBSD box, 
everything comes alive.

To be honest, I don't really know where to take it from there.  It sounds 
like a routing issue, but why does the interface perform fine after a 
ping (insert network operation of choice).

A netstat -r doesn't show any changes before or after either.  I'm stumped.

Thanks,
Geoff.

On Fri, 19 Apr 1996, Gary Palmer wrote:

> Geoff Wells wrote in message ID
> <Pine.BSF.3.91.960419132651.7086A-100000@schwing.ginsu.com>:
> > 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.
> 



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