Re: Etiquette re: unanswered questions

2005-09-30 Thread Darrin Chandler
I've used rl0 with 3.7 and had no problems. Not onboard, but regular PCI slot... Roger Neth Jr wrote: For what it is worth. I was unable to get a rl0 nic to work with OpenBSD 3.7-stable. It would not ping or communicate with the other networked computers. arp -a showed that rl0 was not seeing

Re: Etiquette re: unanswered questions

2005-09-30 Thread Richard P. Koett
L. V. Lammert wrote: > On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Richard P. Koett wrote: > >> What is the accepted thing to do if one posts a question >> and gets no response after a few days? >> >> Should one... >> >> a) Politely ask again? >> >> b) Rephrase the question? >> >> c) Assume nobody wants to answer so

Re: Etiquette re: unanswered questions

2005-09-30 Thread Roger Neth Jr
For what it is worth. I was unable to get a rl0 nic to work with OpenBSD 3.7-stable. It would not ping or communicate with the other networked computers. arp -a showed that rl0 was not seeing the arp on the other computers nics and vice versa. I put a linksys nic in the same computer and all is we

Re: Etiquette re: unanswered questions

2005-09-30 Thread L. V. Lammert
On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Richard P. Koett wrote: > What is the accepted thing to do if one posts a question > and gets no response after a few days? > > Should one... > > a) Politely ask again? > > b) Rephrase the question? > > c) Assume nobody wants to answer so stop asking? > d) Assume you haven't

Re: Etiquette re: unanswered questions

2005-09-29 Thread Richard P. Koett
Stuart Henderson wrote: > --On 29 September 2005 20:54 -0700, Richard P. Koett wrote: > >> This machine has two interfaces - 'ne3' facing the Internet and 'rl0' >> facing a small (3 computer) internal network. I am *assuming* that >> the log entries pertain to the external interface but tcpdump is

Re: Etiquette re: unanswered questions

2005-09-29 Thread Darren Tucker
Richard P. Koett wrote: 09:37:39.020855 33:0:0:0:0:0 3d:2:1:0:6e:65 108: null I (s=0,r=0,C) len=90 I once saw something vaguely similar with a PCI NIC that wasn't seated properly. Reseated the NIC and all was well. Don't ask how long it took to find it. -- Darren Tucker (dtucker at z

Re: Etiquette re: unanswered questions

2005-09-29 Thread Stuart Henderson
--On 29 September 2005 20:54 -0700, Richard P. Koett wrote: This machine has two interfaces - 'ne3' facing the Internet and 'rl0' facing a small (3 computer) internal network. I am *assuming* that the log entries pertain to the external interface but tcpdump is not broken nic somewhere? bad sw

Re: Etiquette re: unanswered questions

2005-09-29 Thread Richard P. Koett
Ingo Schwarze wrote: > Dear Mr. Koett, > > Ted Unangst schrieb am Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 10:00:01PM -0400: >> On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Richard P. Koett wrote: > [...] >>> b) Rephrase the question? >> yes. ask again, include more information > > In this particular case, you might for example > - try t

Re: Etiquette re: unanswered questions

2005-09-29 Thread Ted Unangst
On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Richard P. Koett wrote: > What is the accepted thing to do if one posts a question > and gets no response after a few days? > > Should one... > > a) Politely ask again? > > b) Rephrase the question? yes. ask again, include more information (what have you done since last

Etiquette re: unanswered questions

2005-09-29 Thread Richard P. Koett
What is the accepted thing to do if one posts a question and gets no response after a few days? Should one... a) Politely ask again? b) Rephrase the question? c) Assume nobody wants to answer so stop asking?