[wellylug] help - strange LAN problem

[David McNab]

On Sat, 2002-12-07 at 17:13, Donald Gordon wrote:
> > But now, when I boot up the workstation box, the gateway won't route
> > packets between eth0 and eth1
> > 
> > But when I do ifdown/ifup eth0 on the workstation box, the gateway box
> > does its iptables routing perfectly.
> 
> So this means (assuming I understand what you mean): when the
> workstation boots, it can ping the gateway but not the jetstart router;
> when you ifup/ifdown eth0 on the workstation, it can ping the gateway
> *and* the jetstart router.

Yes!

I've stuck a script into /etc/init.d, running at S95 in runlevel 2,
which does the ifdown then ifup automatically upon booting. Hides the
problem from my sight, but doesn't cure it.

> Is the workstation set up to pick up an IP address via DHCP, or is it
> statically assigned?

Statically assigned.

I stress that this setup was working perfectly for months.

BTW - My workstation talks to the gateway via a 100MB/s switch.

Cheers
David



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