From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 21 20:39: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (oe54.law12.hotmail.com [64.4.18.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1DC137B405 for ; Sat, 21 Jul 2001 20:39:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from default013subscriptions@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Sat, 21 Jul 2001 20:39:02 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [24.14.93.185] Reply-To: "default013 - subscriptions" From: "default013 - subscriptions" To: Subject: Strange Networking Problem Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 22:39:40 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 22 Jul 2001 03:39:02.0768 (UTC) FILETIME=[D9C27F00:01C1125F] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I am on an AT&T cable line at the moment and I have a few computers on the network all connected through a hub. My FreeBSD machine has 2 of the I.P.s on it... The problem is that frequently I get 50% packet loss (according to ping) between my FreeBSD server and my Windows workstation. I verify the situation by an extremely slow connection using any protocol... I believe it is because both machines are going through different gateways. My future fix to this problem is upgrading my ISP and getting a service that will put all of my machines on the same gateway, and eventually setting up some sort of router or NAT system to route packets... but currently, I'm stuck in this bad situation... I am sure that it has to do with the gateway because if I telnet to another off-network system, I can get back to the server just fine. I am wondering, if anyone understands how this problem works, and if so, are there any FreeBSD networking tricks that I can use to minimize or eliminate it? P.S. I am confused as to why one can't bind a 192.168 addy to the regular nic and access it that way... I tried it and was only able to access it from the server itself... I have been told that if I had two NICs and setup NAT to filter between the WAN and the LAN, I could do it... but why can't one just setup a 192.168 on the regular NIC? Thanks, Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message