From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 19 16:27:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA10839 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 19 Apr 1996 16:27:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from schwing.ginsu.com (schwing.ginsu.com [205.210.24.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA10831 Fri, 19 Apr 1996 16:27:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from geoff@localhost) by schwing.ginsu.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id TAA07818; Fri, 19 Apr 1996 19:23:44 -0400 Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 19:23:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Geoff Wells To: Gary Palmer cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Routing problem. In-Reply-To: <5639.829952178@palmer.demon.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 > : > > 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. >