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- From: dgogates@eberry ()
- Subject: Re: Weird Ping Problem -- Hide 'n' Seek?
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 14:09:51 GMT
- References: <1992Dec21.225309.28390@trintex.uucp>
- Organization: IBM, Austin
- Keywords: tcp ping
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- In article <1992Dec21.225309.28390@trintex.uucp> elr@trintex.uucp (Ed Ravin) writes:
- >I've got the strangest problem trying to communicate between two RS/6000's.
- >They're networked to each other via token ring and a couple of bridges.
- >
- >Let's call these two machines A and B. Everything was wonderful until one
- >day, some connections and configurations were moved around. I signed on to
- >machine A and tried to ping machine B. No response. I called up the admin
- >of machine B on the phone. He said, "Let me try pinging you..." He signs on
- >to machine B and pings me. It works fine. I then go back to machine A
- >and try pinging B again. Much to my amazement, now it works, but after several
- >minutes (haven't nailed down the exact length of time it takes) if I don't
- >reference machine B in any way, it fails again.
- >
- >The admin from B was skeptical, so I came down to his machine and started up
- >two X windows. The first one I left at the regular command prompt, and the
- >second one I telnetted to machine A, but via two indirect hops so as not to
- >create a direct path between B and A. From that window, I said "ping B", and
- >it hung there, timing out. I then switched to the local window on B, with
- >the sysop watching, and said "ping A". Immediately, both windows began
- >scrolling with successful pings.
- >
- >Anyone out there have some ideas? The folks in charge of the token ring
- >bridges claim everything works, and that traffic should pass equally in
- >both directions. I've looked through B's routing tables, but I can't find
- >anything that explains why locally originated pings would work while remote
- >ones go unanswered...
-
- This is a real common problem when router and bridges are concerned. Most likely
- the bridge/routes updtes it routes every once in a while by seding out "test" or
- "xid" broadcast packets. When a machine responds the route is added to routers
- route tabel. If no response is heard from a machine for a long time, the route
- is dropped. Early version of the 3.1 and 3.2 token ring device drivers did not
- respond correctly to the XID and TEST packets if only TCP/IP were running on it.
- Contact you IBM support rep and get the updated token ring device driver. This should
- solv your routing problems. Also you can have the admin for the router add the route
- as a static route rather than thru a dynamic method.
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