In your email to me, [EMAIL PROTECTED], you wrote: > > Hello all ... > > I have a strange problem that consistently comes up upon a reboot of > two Debian nodes of mine. > > After these nodes reboot (cold or warm) no one can telnet to, or > ping ... to them. > > HOWEVER - if I login as any user including root (onto the problematic > machines consoles) and ping out to any functional node on my net. The > ping session will pause for about 10-15 seconds and then start to > communicate with that node getting very reliable timing of 1ms, AND > NEVER one problem for the rest of the uptime of that machine. > > > At this point any user from any other node will be able to telnet to, > ping ... these machine with 0 problems, UNTIL that machine is rebooted > (warm or cold) again. The cycle repeats itself... > > > I am using a 3com 3c503 card, 486-100mhz, 16mb ram, aha1542c. > ( a very simplistic setup )
Welcome to flaky 503 cards. Almost every machine I have set up with Linux and a 503 has this problem. I solve this by setting up rc.boot to execute a script that does ping -c1 out to a machine. Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps "It's almost impossible to overestimate the unimportance of most things." -- John Logue ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my own.** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
