I am having a very odd network problem, and I can't figure out the problem. Here is a description of my network:
(cable modem) - (linux box as router running debian of course ;)) - switch (misc workstations) The router machine is running fine. I just recently installed Debian on a workstation however, and I'm getting the problem on that machine. It's a Asus a7v133 running an athlon 1.4ghz It has two network cards in it, eth0 is a SMC card that is not in use (8139too driver), and eth1 is a netgear card that I am using (natsemi driver). I have no problem at all communicating with hosts inside my subnet. I can ping -f, copy files, without (m)any packets being dropped. Once this computer needs to use MASQ though, things get whacky. If I try to communicate with another host, a few packets will be sent back and forth, and then no more are sent. Here is the weird part. This computer works fine using the same configuration in Windows. All the other computers work fine too. I have been trying to figure out what the problem is, so I did some packet sniffing with ethereal on the router. I listened for any packets going to or from the debian machine in question. I ran ping (some host on the internet) and let it sit. The first two pings went through, and then it stopped. The *really* weird part is that the machine stopped sending the pings! Well, the router wasn't receiving them anyway. Another oddity is that running /etc/init.d/networking restart on the workstation would fix the problem, for a few more packets. After letting ping sit, another ping would go through about every five minutes. I would appreciate any help or ideas.. this one has me stumped! --------------------------------------------------------------- | Eddie J Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.m00.net | | AIM: The Cypher ICQ: 35576339 YHOO: edmcman2 MSN:edmcman@^ | | "We Trills have an expression--at forty, you think you | | know everything. At four hundred, you realize you know | | nothing." - Dax, Star Trek Deep Space 9 | --------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
