Hi, Thanks for the suggestions, however the problem has been resolved ... i replaced the coax cable between the two 10Base2 cards with a homemade Crossover UTP cable - plugged it in and it worked straight-away!
Should this have made the difference it did ? -- Dave Tyrrell ----- Original Message ----- From: Henrik Nordstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 7:26 PM Subject: Re: [Bridge] Simple bridge on kernel 2.4.10 not working > Dave Tyrrell wrote: > > > From the bridge box i can ping machines on both sides of the bridge > > Good. This rules out most issues with NIC drivers. > > > but i cannot ping from a machine on one side of the bridge to a machine on the other side. > > Have you waited for the bridge to enter it's forwarding state before > doing the tests? Normally it will take wometing like 15 seconds from the > bridge being enabled until it is forwarding packets. > > > Any suggestions ? > > "tcpdump -en" is your friend. > > -- > Henrik Nordstr�m > _______________________________________________ Bridge mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.math.leidenuniv.nl/mailman/listinfo/bridge
