[lug] weird networking on a multi-homed host

[Hugh Brown]

Seems odd that this would be the problem since I was using ip addresses in both directions.

I gave up trying to do the net install and put a cdrom drive in the box.

Hugh

"Sexton, George"
> 
> ping -n
> 
> Name server resolution issues.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us [mailto:lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us]On
> Behalf Of Hugh Brown
> Sent: 27 August, 2001 10:20 AM
> To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> Subject: [lug] weird networking on a multi-homed host
> 
> 
> I have a host acting as a firewall with two NIC's in it.  I was trying to
> do a net install on it (with the external NIC disconnected) and I couldn't
> get anything to go.  So I did some testing.  eth0 is the external interface
> and eth1 is the internal interface.  server is the multi-homed host and
> client is a machine on the internal lan.
> 
> when I disconnect the cable to server:eth0 and try and ping client from
> server, I get next to nothing showing up on server.  When I sniff packets
> on client though, I see all of the ping requests come through just fine.
> If I ping server from client I see all of the requests come back fine, but
> the sniffer on server shows nothing coming through.
> 
> So
> 
> ping server->client   mostly fails (I get about 5 responses, the first one
> shows up after a while, but shows a 1ms response time, the next response
> showed 80000ms, then 160000ms, then 320000, then 640000 ...)
> 
> ping client->server works fine
> 
> I'm at a loss.
> 
> Hugh
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