> I've put together a router using Bering rc4, but it has a strange > startup issue. Once the router is up and running, if I try and ping it > from a machine on the interior network, it won't respond. However, if I > try and ping from the router to the machine on the network, the first > four packet fail and then it starts to work. After that, the ping from > the machine to the router works as well. > > Does anyone have any idea what causes the interface to fail until it has > been 'primed' like this?
Make sure you don't have overlapping IP addresses. If two machines are assigned the same IP, you can see behavior like this. Charles Steinkuehler http://lrp.steinkuehler.net http://c0wz.steinkuehler.net (lrp.c0wz.com mirror) ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html