Hi! We have a switched ethernet/token ring network environment based on cabletron switch hardware (SmartSwitch 6000 and SmartSwitch 9000). The problem: I can't reach a Workstation or Server in the switched token ring segment with a linux box in the ethernet segement (i. e. ping, telnet etc.). If I manually add the mac-address of the destination in the token ring to the local arp cache of the linux box, all communication works fine. With some work on sniffering the network and some help of cabletron technical support I find out the following: The linux box sends the arp request packet with hardware type 1 but the switch replies the packet with hardware type 6 in the arp packet. It seems that linux don't understand hardware type 6 - I'm not sure. I looked at rfc1042, were it is described but I can't find any useful information. Any idea on this issue? Cabletron technical support told me, there will be a firmware upgrade wich brings a solution for non rfc1042 compliant components. So the switch will send two arp packets one with hardware type 1 and another with hardware type 6. I did tests on Linux 2.0.x, 2.1.x and 2.2.x all with the result described above. thanks -Volker- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
