Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 14:38:56 -0700 From: "Eric Rosenberry" <ericr@dsl-only.net> To: <chip.wiegand@simrad.com>, "Ryan Thompson" <ryan@sasknow.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Strange network connectivity problem Message-ID: <GLEOKLAKEIBLAAKKFHEIKEFGCEAA.ericr@dsl-only.net> In-Reply-To: <41256A61.007B2C7B.00@mail.simrad.no>
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From the output you have sent it looks to me like your BSD box is unable to
do an ARP for the router???
Can you try pinging the router's internal address from the BSD box please?
(157.237.65.245)
This kind of sounds to me like a problem with the Cisco router. I would not
be surprised if someone had made a change to it's configuration but not
written it to flash memory so that when it was "rebooted" it lost
something...
P.S. Please let me know what the resolution to this is, I am intrigued by
it.
-Eric
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of
chip.wiegand@simrad.com
Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 2:19 PM
To: Ryan Thompson
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Strange network connectivity problem
I downloaded 4.3, not installed it. I'm going to burn it to a cd so I can
upgrade my home
machines. The version running here is 4.2.
The DNS is external, the BSD box cannot ping it or resolve names, etc, but
the
IIS box can.
I didn't mean to hide any ip addresses, just didn't mention them. Here is
some
more
info:
the BSD box is not reachable from the outside world. The IIS box is. The
router
is
63.66.44.163 which uses nat to redirect to 157.237.65.104 (IIS). The BSD box
runs apache, etc
for development only, it's address is 157.237.65.149. The gateway for the
two
computers is
157.237.65.245. These two are the only boxes on the network using this
particular router,
everything else goes through a differant router. The IIS box has no problem
with
connecting
to the outside world, by name and ipaddress.
From the BSD box:
ifconfig -a
xl0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 inet
157.237.65.249 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 157.237.65.255 inet6
fe80::201:2ff:febf:bbea%xl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 ether
00:01:02:bf:bb:ea
media: autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>) status: active supported
media:
autoselect 100baseTX <full-duplex> 100baseTX 10baseT/UTP <full-duplex>
10baseT/UTP 100baseTX <hw-loopback>lp0:
flags=8810<POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500faith0:
flags=8000<MULTICAST>
mtu 1500gif0: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1280gif1:
flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1280gif2:
flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1280gif3:
flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1280lo0:
flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384 inet6 fe80::1%lo0
prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x8 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet 127.0.0.1
netmask
0xff000000 ppp0: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1500sl0:
flags=c010<POINTOPOINT,LINK2,MULTICAST> mtu 552
--------------------
netstat -rn
Routing tables
Internet:
Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Netif
Expire
default 157.237.65.245 UGSc 2 0 xl0
127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 0 0 lo0
157.237.65/24 link#1 UC 0 0 xl0 =>
157.237.65.101 0:a0:c9:e9:3d:39 UHLW 1 91 xl0 1143
157.237.65.102 0:1:2:bf:2e:42 UHLW 0 216 xl0 1187
157.237.65.103 0:50:da:6e:86:fa UHLW 0 13 xl0 1198
157.237.65.245 link#1 UHLW 3 0 xl0 =>
157.237.65.255 ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff UHLWb 2 80 xl0
-----------------------
rc.conf:
hostname="simrad_4"
newtwork_interfaces="xl0 lo0"
ifconfig_xl0="inet 157.237.65.249 netmask 255.255.255.0"
ifconfig_lo0="inet127.0.0.1"
linux_enable="YES"
sendmail_enable="YES"
moused_enable="YES"
defaultrouter="157.237.65.245"
sshd_enable="YES"
inetd_enable="YES"
------------------------
resolv.conf:
nameserver 209.63.0.2
nameserver 207.173.86.2
search simdom simrad.com
-------------------------
traceroute to the DNS server from BSD box:
1 157.237.65.245 (157.237.65.245) 1.332 ms 1.224 ms 1.190 ms
2 157.237.65.245 (157.237.65.245) 1.473 ms !H 1.486 ms !H *
It appears that either, one, the router has outbound traceroute blocked
or two, it simply does not work. I can traceroute out through our other
router. Even the IIS box cannot tracert, but can ping, anything outside.
--------------------
tracert from NT workstation to the BSD box:
Tracing route to simrad_4 [157.237.65.249]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 <10 ms <10 ms <10 ms SIMRAD_4 [157.237.65.249]
Trace complete.
-------------------------
ping from a NT workstation to the bsd box:
Pinging 157.237.65.249 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 157.237.65.249: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=255
Reply from 157.237.65.249: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=255
Reply from 157.237.65.249: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=255
Reply from 157.237.65.249: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=255
----------------------------------------------
The IIS box and the BSD box both point to the same DNS servers and
the the same default gateway, are both on the same network. Other
servers and workstations use a differant router and gateway, which
is working fine. The router in question is a Cisco 2610, which we
have found to be rather unreliable, having to power-cyle it at least
once a month. We don't have the know-how to get into it and mess with
the settings, that's done by an outside contractor.
Hopefully, that info will help...
Regards,
Chip Wiegand
Computer Services
www.simradusa.com
chip.wiegand@simrad.com
Simrad, Inc
Lynnwood, WA
425-712-1138
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."
--Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp.,
1977
(-- Then why do I have nine? Somebody help me!)
Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com> on 06/04/2001 09:22:39 PM
Internet mail from:
To: Chip Wiegand
cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Strange network connectivity problem
chip.wiegand@simrad.com wrote to freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG:
>
>
> I have a router between internet and two machines, one IIS and one
> FBSD. Saturday we had to power down everything for the PUD to shutdown
> our power for the day to hook up the new building next door. Sunday I
> powered up everything and all appeared to be fine. I even downloaded
> FBSD4.3 on the BSD box.
Did you test FreeBSD 4.3 in the old setup? Sounds like a misconfiguration
there. Can you restore your old setup?
> Today, Monday, I am not able to connect to any address outside the
> router, from the BSD box only. The IIS machine has no
> problem.
> I can ping any ip address inside the network, all 3 addresses on the
router,
but
> nothing outside the router.
> I have samba, apache and telnet running on the BSD box, yet they
> will not respond
> from to requests from inside the network. Top shows all three are indeed
> running.
> I rebooted the BSD box, and sendmail hung on loading,
This happens because DNS is not working--can you resolve names from the
FreeBSD machine? Is your nameserver internal, or are you using a
nameserver that is beyond the router? Read below.
> it eventually allowed the boot to finish, but it also does not respond
> to a request to send a message. On the BSD box I can ping the inside
> network by ip address, not name. This leads me to think it is a DNS
> problem, yet the IIS box points to the same DNS and has no problem
> with this. I checked resolv.conf and rc.conf, they have the same
> settings as the IIS box.
Right, but if you can't connect to the DNS server through IP (see above
comment) DNS won't work on the FreeBSD machine. Without knowing more, I'd
say the DNS trouble is just a side effect of your connectivity problem.
> I am at a loss as to what to check next. I don't understand why
> whatever is preventing the access to the outside world is also
> preventing access to apache and samba shares from inside the network.
> Let me know what specific bits of info are needed to try to
> troubleshoot this. Reply to the address below.
Try some of the old standbys... Send us the output
netstat -rn
ifconfig -a
And traceroutes to and from that machine from various points outside and
inside your network.
It would be most helpful if you don't try to "hide" the real IP addresses,
so we can see if you've got any problems with subnetting, private
addresses, etc.
>
> Regards,
>
> Chip Wiegand
> Computer Services
> www.simradusa.com
> chip.wiegand@simrad.com
> Simrad, Inc
> Lynnwood, WA
> 425-712-1138
>
> "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."
> --Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp.,
1977
> (-- Then why do I have nine? Somebody help me!)
>
>
>
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