Mark Stewart wrote: > Networking gurus, your knowledge is desperately needed... > > I have my Mdk8.2 box setup on our corporate network with a static IP. Call > it mybox.foo.com. I have a laptop running Win2K that lives on our wireless > LAN and uses a DHCP-allocated IP and lives in a subnet. Call it > laptop.dhcp.foo.com. The trouble is that unless I first ping the laptop from > mybox, I cannot reach mybox from the laptop. More problematically, if I > leave an ssh connection from the laptop to mybox idle for more than say 5 > minutes the connection dies. If I reboot into Win2K on mybox I don't have to > ping first to allow the laptop to connect and connections once made continue > to work for as long as you like. It just works. > > Our LAN admin, who clearly knows much more about Windows, is pointing the > finger at the OS since he isn't required to support Linux. Our network has a > bunch of VLANs in it, the details to which I am not privy but if there's > something that might be relevant I can ask him about it. On the other hand, > if anyone understands what's going on here that has to do with how I've got > mybox configured I would really love to know. Just to be clear, I'm not > running any firewalls or anything, no iptables, ipchains, etc. I am running > NFS, Samba, ssh, and proftpd. > > Thanks in advance for any and all thoughts, > > ::mark
Mark, since you've got to ping the laptop from mybox before it will connect suggests that mybox is not broadcasting it's services to the network, OR it's broadcasts are being squelched by something/someone on the LAN where these two reside. It's sounds more like the first though since the laptop doesn't have any trouble at all at finding mybox when it's running win2K. Mark
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