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Re: Strange arp problem



On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 05:25:55PM -0500, Celejar wrote:
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> On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 09:06:16 +1100
> Alex Samad <alex@samad.com.au> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 01:20:58AM -0500, Celejar wrote:
> > > On Sun, 8 Feb 2009 17:13:11 +1100
> > > Alex Samad <alex@samad.com.au> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 08:10:43PM -0500, Celejar wrote:
> > 
> > [snip]
> > 
> > > > 
> > > > The AP should be able to see it at all times
> > > 
> > > Thanks, but I don't think that's it.  The problematic machine remains
> > > connected to the AP; as I mentioned, it can access the internet fine.
> > 
> > Okay, what about then you can't access from the local lan, have you
> > tried running a tcpdump on the wireless link to see if the arp requests
> > are making it to the machine ?
> 
> That's certainly a good suggestion; ISTR that I tried that last time I
> had the problem, but I'll have to try it again and report back.

when I am trying to track problems like this I usually like to have
tcpdump running on the 2 machines and if possible on the wireless router


I am guessing you don't have openwrt or ddwrt on some linux distro on
the ap.  But if you can see the arp request  leaving the lan box and not making
it to the wireless box then it might be a ap problem

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