Hi all, My internal network consists of 2 computers: a win98 box and a Debian upgraded to potato box.
Here is the problem... If my debian box is booted first and then my win88 box second, the internal network does not work. If I boot the two systems in reverse (win98 first then debian) the internal network works! As far as I can tell everything looks like it is configured correctly, even the ipmasq works when I ping up my ppp contection. The problem only happens after booting. The only difference I can see is an arp command returns: Address HWtype HWaddress Flags Mask Iface win98 (incomplete) eth0 when the internal newtork is not working (meaning I booted debian first with noone on the internal network initially). I tried a tcpdump to see what was going on, and it returns: 22:45:28.902005 arp who-has win98 tell debian 22:45:33.902005 arp who-has win98 tell debian 22:45:38.902001 arp who-has win98 tell debian Now, if the linux box is brought up second, the arp command returns nothing until I try to ping the win98 box (which does succed because the win98 box was present during boot of debian) and then the arp returns Address HWtype HWaddress Flags Mask Iface win98 ether 00:60:08:9A:45:AE C eth0 The only way to fix this is the run: /etc/init.d/networking restart then everything is fine. This sould not have to be done... it is also anoying! Is this a netbase bug or am I doing something wrong? ===== ----------------------------------------------------------- Academia is a little like child | Parrish M. Myers rearing, it provides a chance at | The Wacked Jester immortality without the stretch | [EMAIL PROTECTED] marks -- (unknown source) | ----------------------------------------------------------- __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online and get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/
