Re: wan hangs, lan works

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Mon Feb 14 2000 - 10:59:48 EST


> we have tried the following workaround (but this is really dirty):
> a beside running sun pings every 5 mins the linux server
>
> if you need more informations use fthielem@de.oracle.com (please cc to
> speterse@de.oracle.com - in case I could't answer fast enough)

Get some tcp dumps. The fix by pinging sounds like a buggy bridge. We've seen
a few bridges that 'forget' to flood to unknown addresses and just assume
machines are noisy.

It might also be a routing/arp error of some kind

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