Re: newbie:problem with TCP/IP on 8500


Subject: Re: newbie:problem with TCP/IP on 8500
schinder@pobox.com
Date: Mon Jun 12 2000 - 08:04:37 MDT


On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 09:55:03AM -0400, Scott Piccotti wrote:
} >> At least I think it's a TCP/IP problem. Our network is run on WinNT.
} >> Clients are configured using DHCP. 'pump' appears to run OK, because the
} >> status of eth0 looks good. I can ping 127.0.0.1, and I can ping
} >> 10.0.0.229 (eth0). But I can't get to anything else on the network.
}
} > Try dhcpcd instead of pump.
} >
}
} I'll give it a shot, but what would this fix? The stats on eth0 are good,
} and the address is accounted for in NT's DHCP Manager. What do you think the
} root of the problem is that dhcpcd would do differently than pump?

I don't know exactly what it fixes. But many, many of us have had our
networking problems disappear when we switched. There's something
that pump doesn't do right that dhcpcd does.

I think you'll find that with pump your arp table isn't right if you
look. "arp -a".

}
} thanks-
} scott
}
}

-- 
Paul Schinder
schinder@pobox.com



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