Hi, This really sounds like the 'remote host' was having troubles. What if you try with a different 'remote host', does it still happen?
cheers, Lennert On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 09:56:49AM -0000, Shaf Ali wrote: > Hi, > > I successfully bridged two eepro pro NIC's on my Redhat 7.2(2.4.16) box. (Compiled >into the kernel CONFIG_BRIDGE=y). > As a test I physically unplugged one of the CAT5's whilst ftping a file to box.... > > bridge messages in /var/log/messages indicated this break and subsequent >reacqusition when the CAT5 was plugged back in... > > Other machines on the network where able to connect to the box after this chain of >events HOWEVER the remote host doing the initial transfer failed to be able to >comunicate to the box via telnet/ftp (since these protocol connections where active >during the removal of the NIC). > Maybe a sticky socket ? > > The only way to connect to the bridged box from the remote host was to restart it's >NIC ! > Has anyone expirenced these problems... > > The whole idea for trying to bridge the two eepro's was to provide greater >throughput and Fault Tolerance.... Should I try something else ? > > Many thanks in advance for any help you may be able to provide. > > Best regards. > Shaf > > ------------ > Shaf Ali [ContentFusion.com] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://mail.shaf.net/~shaf/ > -- I are sigfile disease!! All your quote are belong to us. Copy us every "sig"! _______________________________________________ Bridge mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.math.leidenuniv.nl/mailman/listinfo/bridge
