>>However, I have noticed something strange. I must keep "outbound" traffic >>flowing or they forget their ARP table for some strange reason. I keep an
AFAIK that ethernet chipset is not particularly advanced. ARP is not a function of the card itself, nor the low-level driver. ARP resolution works via broadcasting queries for an IP address to all nodes on the network. Then, the node that has that address is supposed to send back a unicast response to the requesting node. The requesting node then stores the MAC/IP association in its ARP table. Someone correct me if I missed anything important or don't really understand this as well as I think. If you are having arp table problems there must be something else not working properly. - jsw -----Original Message----- From: John Gonzalez, Tularosa Communications [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2001 11:53 AM To: Olivier Poitrey Cc: debian-isp@lists.debian.org; Antonio Rodriguez Subject: Re: System locks up with RealTek 8139 and kernel 2.2.20 What causes the lockups? How often? I have an RTL 8139 in use. However, I have noticed something strange. I must keep "outbound" traffic flowing or they forget their ARP table for some strange reason. I keep an outbound ping running... If i dont, and there is no network activity on the box, it is unresponsive via network, but hopping on the console and starting another ping session brings it back to life. (I also have to do this on my machines with older RTL cards, using the ne2k-pci driver) So far, uptime of box and kernel ver with RTL cards is: Linux xxxxx 2.2.19 #22 Wed Jun 20 18:12:16 PDT 2001 i686 unknown 9:42am up 13 days, 6:57, 6 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 -- John Gonzalez, Tularosa Communications | (505) 439-0200 work JG6416, ASN 11711, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (505) 443-1228 fax http://www.tularosa.net On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Olivier Poitrey wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Antonio Rodriguez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <debian-isp@lists.debian.org> > Sent: Friday, December 21, 2001 3:54 PM > Subject: System locks up with RealTek 8139 and kernel 2.2.20 > > > 2. move to 2.4 and hope this solves the problem. I have already gone > > from 2.2.17 to 2.2.20 to try to fix it, but maybe the move to 2.4 will > > be more significant. > > You'll have the same problem with 2.4.x, I have tested it for you :/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
