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Re: network oddity



On Sat, Apr 15, 2000 at 12:06:01AM +0000, Jim Breton wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 06:31:02PM -0600, David Karlin wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I have a slink box which has been running great.  It was up for over
> > 45 days without a hitch.
> > 
> > The box does ipmasq-ing (among other tasks) for my lan, but when it
> > is booted, it won't respond to a ping, telnet, ftp, or http request
> > until I make a network connection _from_ that box (eg. ping another
> > box on the lan, or make a PPP connection to my ISP).
> > 
> > Anyone else had this happen?
> 
> 
> I've never had that happen... but I wonder if it might be a module that
> is being loaded on-demand by the box, in which case the box can't know
> that it's needed until one of the local processes needs that module.
> 
> When you boot the machine, run lsmod and take a look at what modules are
> loaded before the networking starts to work.  Then perform some network
> operations and run lsmod again.  Are the lists different?

I ran lsmod before and after.  No change. :-/ 
-- 
David Karlin
dkarlin@coloradomtn.edu
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