laptop fails to "hear" replies

2008-07-24 Thread Lloyd Kvam
When my laptop boots, it is configured to use a dhcp server. For some time now, that processing has failed. I can run tcpdump -n ether host and see the packets going out, but not the replies. At the dhcp server, the same tcpdump command shows the requests and replies. I can get the la

Re: laptop fails to "hear" replies

2008-07-26 Thread Dave Johnson
Lloyd Kvam writes: > When my laptop boots, it is configured to use a dhcp server. For some > time now, that processing has failed. I can run > tcpdump -n ether host > and see the packets going out, but not the replies. > > At the dhcp server, the same tcpdump command shows the requests

Re: laptop fails to "hear" replies

2008-07-27 Thread Lloyd Kvam
Thanks for responding. On Sat, 2008-07-26 at 22:57 -0400, Dave Johnson wrote: > Lloyd Kvam writes: > > When my laptop boots, it is configured to use a dhcp server. For some > > time now, that processing has failed. I can run > > tcpdump -n ether host > > and see the packets going out,

Re: laptop fails to "hear" replies

2008-07-30 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Lloyd Kvam writes: > That timing is right on. However, it needs to be a problem triggered by > the laptop. I hit this problem on the road. How would the laptop force > the port to be disabled? Were you running any programs on your laptop that could have emitted some strange network traffic?

Re: laptop fails to "hear" replies

2008-07-30 Thread Lloyd Kvam
On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 14:37 -0400, Kevin D. Clark wrote: > Lloyd Kvam writes: > > > That timing is right on. However, it needs to be a problem triggered by > > the laptop. I hit this problem on the road. How would the laptop force > > the port to be disabled? > > Were you running any programs