Re: tcpip communications not available
In your email to me, David_Oswald@prenhall.com, you wrote:
>
> Hello all ...
>
> I have a strange problem that consistently comes up upon a reboot of
> two Debian nodes of mine.
>
> After these nodes reboot (cold or warm) no one can telnet to, or
> ping ... to them.
>
> HOWEVER - if I login as any user including root (onto the problematic
> machines consoles) and ping out to any functional node on my net. The
> ping session will pause for about 10-15 seconds and then start to
> communicate with that node getting very reliable timing of 1ms, AND
> NEVER one problem for the rest of the uptime of that machine.
>
>
> At this point any user from any other node will be able to telnet to,
> ping ... these machine with 0 problems, UNTIL that machine is rebooted
> (warm or cold) again. The cycle repeats itself...
>
>
> I am using a 3com 3c503 card, 486-100mhz, 16mb ram, aha1542c.
> ( a very simplistic setup )
Welcome to flaky 503 cards. Almost every machine I have set up with
Linux and a 503 has this problem. I solve this by setting up
rc.boot to execute a script that does ping -c1 out to a machine.
Tim
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