Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 15:56:20 -0800 (PST) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> To: chris@netmonger.net (Christopher Masto) Cc: fenner@parc.xerox.com, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Network/ARP problem? Maybe pn driver? Message-ID: <199901292356.PAA01669@bubba.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <19990129180612.C3237@netmonger.net> from Christopher Masto at "Jan 29, 99 06:06:12 pm"
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Christopher Masto writes: > > Can you run a "tcpdump arp" on the machine that is having the problem, > > as well? This could help to determine if it's a driver problem (e.g. > > if the replies don't show up) or an ARP problem (e.g. if the replies > > do show up but arp doesn't use them). > > Good idea. > > Hmm. Running tcpdump seems to make the problem go away. The ARP > replies show up immediately appear in the table. Clue. Tcpdump puts the Ethernet card in promiscuous mode. So perhaps somebody is trying to unicast you something but using the wrong Ethernet address. Could be the local or remote ARP code. Just a guess. -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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