Re: UNIX to NT

["R. DuFresne" <dufresne () sysinfo com>]

I had a similiar problem tween two win boxen <one win3.11, the other
win95> and a linux server.  It turned out to be a very subtle memory issue
tween the 3com 3c509 card and the awe32 soundcard on the linux server.  It
would not show in a cat /proc/ioports, as the soundcard silently grabbed
some isa memory space from the net cards settings via isapnp tools config
file.  Was very hard to track down.  Was only fully discovered by a chance
reading through the isapnp.conf file, I'll bet you have something similiar
on yer BSD box.  All looked great on the wire, except the lack of one side
seeing the othersides replies.  Not a network nor a firewall person about
could figger it out.  It's hardware <grin>...

Laterer,


Ron DuFresne
On Thu, 10 Sep 1998 mreiter () gwillness osd mil wrote:

> I'm attempting to hook up my test firewall (on a BSD UNIX box) to an NT
> box.  Both computers can send and receive valid pings - but only as a
> loopback.  If I ping the UNIX machine from the NT machine, it sees the ping
> but does not respond.  Same for pinging the other direction.  arp
> broadcasts are ok.  A UNIX administrator, an NT administrator, and a
> network engineer cannot find any configuration errors.  In short - there's
> a continuous wire, 2 correctly configured (I think) boxes, packets moving,
> and no communication.  Any ideas how the two can be made to talk?

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