Cathy Gramze wrote: > There is still a link light on both the NIC and the router. There > seems to be a lot of traffic every few seconds, then it settles down > to a routine blink, and then repeats. No change when I ping, i.e. no > extra activity blinks. It's interesting that the ping shows > unreachable rather than merely dropped packets. > > So I used my laptop to sniff packets. When the desktop has no > connectivity, there are repeated messages from the router asking for > it to tell it who it is (Who has 192.186.1.104? Tell 192.168.1.1.) The > DHCP requests and DHCP discovers from the desktop when I run dhclient > are in the sniffer capture log. So are repeated DHCP offers from the > router. It looks like the NIC simply isn't seeing any traffic at all > from the router. > > When I ping the last IP address of the desktop from the laptop I get > replies, but from 10.105.120.1. If I ping that, I get perfect replies. > I don't use 10 series on my network. There are no entries in my DHCP > client table for an extra laptop computer freeloading using my > wireless. WTF? -- see shy jo
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