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Re: Moderated group posting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ed Carp [khijol SysAdmin])
Sun Jan 14 03:35:09 1996
From: "Ed Carp [khijol SysAdmin]" <erc@dal1820.computek.net>
To: nns@news.comet.chv.va.us
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1996 01:52:18 -0600 (CST)
Cc: submit-linux-dev-net@ratatosk.yggdrasil.com
In-Reply-To: <19960112041740588.AAA126@news> from "nns@news.comet.chv.va.us" at Jan 12, 96 04:08:58 am
Reply-To: ecarp@netcom.com
> I've got a box running the 1.2.13 kernel. It has an ethernet
> interface to the LAN (3Com 3C509B -- works like a champ one its PnP is
> diabled), and a couple of modems making SLIP connections. As of
> mid-December, it was doing just what it should: packets routed across
> the interfaces quite nicely.
>
> Now it has stopped. Each interface works fine -- I can ping the
> outside world through the SLIP links. I can send mail through the
> SLIP links. I can do anything through the LAN interface. But it just
> will not forward packets between the two. I haven't changed the
> kernel. In fact, I rebuilt the kernel from sources which haven't been
> touched, and it's still behaving this way.
>
> The only wrinkle on this story happened in late December, when the box
> crashed twice from power outages. Each time, it came back just fine.
> The disk is OK by fsck. But ever since (though I don't have the
> timing well isolated), it will not forward packets.
>
> Anyone know what's going on? Anyone know a way I can log packet
> traffic on both interfaces, to be absolutely sure packets aren't
> crossing? I'm just at a loss at this point.
Um, have you peeked in lost+found for "moved" files?
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