Re: NIC War

2004-04-21 Thread dircha
Ian Melnick wrote: What else can I try? Try googling for "arp_filter hidden" and related things; there are a few archived discussions that will come up, although I don't know whether any of them will be useful. Also, look through some of the other arp related options in the Documentation/networ

Re: NIC War

2004-04-20 Thread Ian Melnick
> Take a look at arp_filter in > /usr/src/linux/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt (assuming > /usr/src/linux is your unpacked kernel source). > > Now, I've never come accross this problem myself, but does it seem > plausible that the default behavior here is creating the problem for > you

Re: NIC War

2004-04-19 Thread dircha
Ian Melnick wrote: nic1: ipA, macA nic2: ipB, macB On the network attached to nic1 one you send an arp request: "who-has ipA tell x.x.x.x" where "ipA" is the ip you believe is assigned to nic1. nic1 does not respond. nic2 responds with: "ipA is-at macB". Yes, this is what's happening. Take a l

Re: NIC War

2004-04-19 Thread Ian Melnick
> nic1: ipA, macA > nic2: ipB, macB > On the network attached to nic1 one you send an arp request: > "who-has ipA tell x.x.x.x" > where "ipA" is the ip you believe is assigned to nic1. nic1 does not > respond. nic2 responds with: > "ipA is-at macB". Yes, this is what's happening. > At the t

Re: NIC War

2004-04-19 Thread dircha
Ian Melnick wrote: The only problem was, external requests coming in weren't going anywhere. There's some kind of switch at the "main office" that forwards requests from the "external IP" to the "internal" one, which is what my first NIC was set up for. When we used arping and other monitoring tool

NIC War

2004-04-19 Thread Ian Melnick
Hello all, The weirdest thing's been going on lately with the two NICs in my machine. One has started to respond on behalf of the other (almost like a proxy arp), and AFAIK, I never set it up to do that. The problem now is getting them both to respond normally, as they did when I first set them u