Good afternoon gentlemen. Just curious if someone had the following issue:
- Setup: 1 machine with an atheros PCMCIA card and a PCI-PCMCIA bridge as nat gateway on OBSD3.8. Nat gateway machine has 2 internal interfaces (re0, re1) and one external (ath0) 1 lovely windows machine on WinXP for games
- At random intervals, connectivity to the Internet is lost, but pinging the internal interfaces works. There are 2 such interfaces, re0 and re1. Both can be pinged. External addresses like google can't be pinged (it hangs as if it's waiting for DNS)
- When one tries to ssh to the OpenBSD box, authentication is requested. After successful authentication, connection seemingly hangs for about a minute or so. Then access is granted.
- Pinging google from the nat gateway does not work at this point in time, the behaviour described above takes place (long wait, followed by actitivy).
- Doing "ifconfig ath0 down" followed by "ifconfig ath0 up" fixes the issue, till the next time it happens (this is usually days or weeks).
Any ideas? Thx, P
