>> Just a billion switch > > .... which is running a firewall? > > (The tcpdump shows a firewall is in play on 192.168.1.250).
The firewall's disabled, and should only be in play if the packet gets routed from what I understand. These packets are being switched. I guess I should connect the hosts directly with a crossover to rule it out. Anyway, i've run up apache on port 81 and it works fine. I also tried disabling apache and connecting to port 80 and got the ICMP message instead of the expected TCP reset.