Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 09:56:47 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> Cc: Andre Guibert de Bruet <andy@siliconlandmark.com> Subject: Re: What's up with the IP stack? Message-ID: <3F8C2ACF.7AB166B@mindspring.com> References: <20031013162838.73FE25D07@ptavv.es.net>
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Kevin Oberman wrote: > When I see this I can reach some LAN hosts, but not others. I can > always seem to reach the access point. I can usually, but not always, > reach most other systems on the LAN, but not the gateway router, a > Sonic Wall firewall. I have logged onto another system and then > connected to the firewall, so it looks like the physical path is OK. > > The problem is intermittent and I have only scattered data. I've been > seeing it sice about the beginning of October. I was blaming it on > hardware, but now that I see these reports, maybe it's not. (I just > replaced my Apple Airport AP with a D-Link, so there is something to > suspect.) > > In may case things just start working again. The pause can vary from a > few seconds to about 10 minutes. netstat -rnf inet and arp -a output > both look to be fine. What about your IP address and default route? I've seen wireless cards, especially IBM ones, fail to get good signal, leaving you with a link.local address, or a valid address, but no default route. This may be your problem here. You might want to "just put the AirPort back"... -- Terry
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