Re: Networking help

2002-12-17 Thread bscott
On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, at 9:08am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Right, I agree with that. My point was that it is not obvious that this > is stupid, given that Linux is the only OS which allows for *multiple* > default routes! Forget about the "default" part entirely. You had a route programmed to

Re: Networking help

2002-12-17 Thread John Abreau
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Possibly, that's the conclusion I'm leaning towards. However, let's > assume 'T' did exist. So what? IMO, the icmp packets should never have > gone to 'T' anyway. Shouldn't

Re: Networking help

2002-12-17 Thread Tom Buskey
mike ledoux said: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA1 > >On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 09:08:18AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> [2] 'vgrep' is a term coined by Tom Buskey while we worked >> together in reference to the fact that I'm quite prone >> to completely miss that wh

Re: Networking help

2002-12-17 Thread pll
In a message dated: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 09:33:55 EST Bob Bell said: >> However, let's assume 'T' did exist. So what? IMO, the icmp packets >> should never have gone to 'T' anyway. Shouldn't have gone back out >> the interface they came in on? > >I was going to reply, but I think Ben already a

Re: Networking help

2002-12-17 Thread Bob Bell
On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 09:08:18AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In a message dated: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 20:50:31 EST > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > This is just a guess, but the timeout on ARP is 20 seconds, IIRC. > > Interesting. I didn't know that! Actually, I think t

Re: Networking help

2002-12-17 Thread pll
In a message dated: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 20:50:31 EST [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, at 2:58pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> While I'm inclined to agree, the question I'm still trying to answer is, >> why did work fine on some systems and not on others. > > Paul, you and I both know th

Re: Networking help

2002-12-16 Thread bscott
On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, at 2:58pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > While I'm inclined to agree, the question I'm still trying to answer is, > why did work fine on some systems and not on others. Paul, you and I both know that computers have enough trouble working when everything is configured right. Wh

Re: Networking help

2002-12-16 Thread pll
In a message dated: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 14:44:56 EST Derek Martin said: >On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 10:46:00AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> > In particular, what is T? >> >> T doesn't actually exist. > >U. Yeah, that would be a case where having multiple >default routes is wrong. =

Re: Networking help

2002-12-16 Thread bscott
One more thing... On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, at 10:46am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Second: That diagram is incomplete. It does not give networks (although I >> can infer most of it), and at least one key gateway has been left out. > > Not really... Oh, yes it was. Unfortunately, the gateway w

Re: Networking help

2002-12-16 Thread bscott
On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, at 10:46am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> In particular, what is T? > > T doesn't actually exist. Paul, I'm going to kill you. :-) You've got a route programmed for a gateway that doesn't exist, and you wonder why you're having network problems! Arggghh! :-) *bonk*

Re: Networking help

2002-12-16 Thread pll
In a message dated: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 19:41:16 EST [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Second: That diagram is incomplete. It does not give networks (although I >can infer most of it), and at least one key gateway has been left out. Not really... > Is the above analysis accurate? Close... > In partic

Re: Multiple default routes (was: Networking help)

2002-12-15 Thread bscott
On Sun, 15 Dec 2002, at 1:09pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> *Nothing* anyone ever says is universally true, Derek. > > Including this statement, I wonder? (-: "This statement is false." :-) -- Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | The opinions expressed in this message are those of the auth

Re: Multiple default routes (was: Networking help)

2002-12-15 Thread bscott
On Sun, 15 Dec 2002, at 12:45am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Did you read my post? **There is nothing special about a default >> route.** It is simply a route that matches all packets. > > Did you read mine? I never said they weren't... All I said is that > /historically/, hosts did not play

Re: Multiple default routes (was: Networking help)

2002-12-15 Thread Kevin D. Clark
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > *Nothing* anyone ever says is universally true, Derek. Including this statement, I wonder? (-: --kevin -- "All Cretans are liars." --Epimanides the Cretan ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:

Re: Multiple default routes (was: Networking help)

2002-12-14 Thread bscott
On Sat, 14 Dec 2002, at 1:26pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > While true, historically this feature of IP has been provided by routers. > it has not been the case with host routing. That feature in hosts is > reletively new. In the case of most host IP stacks, only the first > default route is ever

Multiple default routes (was: Networking help)

2002-12-13 Thread bscott
Okay, I'm coming into this discussion late, but this thread desperately needs a clue-injection... There is nothing wrong with having multiple default routes. Not only do they work just fine under every version of Linux I've tried them with (including Red Hat 5.mumble, 6.2 and 7.3), they also

Re: Networking help

2002-12-13 Thread bscott
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Re: Networking help

2002-12-13 Thread pll
In a message dated: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 16:12:26 EST Marc Evans said: >I use multiple default gateways on many 2.4.x linux systems. They work >fine, and provide decent failover when routers go down for whatever >reason. You may find it useful to contrast that with "ip route show" to >see more detail

Re: Networking help

2002-12-12 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Derek Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Oh, come on Kevin, lots of systems let you do lots of things that > aren't legal... Multiple default routes are legal, and I still think that it is reasonable to expect that if these were in fact illegal that the code that maintains the routing table

Re: Networking help

2002-12-12 Thread Kevin D. Clark
A system with multiple default routes typically works as follows: if the routing code is presented with an IP datagram that is not applicable to any other entry in the route table, then the default routes are used, typically in a round-robin manner. Multiple default routes are sometimes useful (

Re: Networking help

2002-12-12 Thread Michael O'Donnell
> I agree with JABR that this is not a good default configuration, > even if it does work now. You shouldn't have multiple default > routes unless you KNOW it will work. If the second network is a > private network that does not route to the Internet, then having > a default route that goes the

Re: Networking help

2002-12-12 Thread John Abreau
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Traditionally, yes. However, Linux done gone and gotten smarter on us and > creates a default route for each interface. This has been default > behavior for some time, and I'v

Re: Networking help

2002-12-12 Thread John Abreau
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >Are those multiple default routes, > > Yes, > > >which would be b0rken? > > Not under Linux, at least IME with multi-homed systems. You may have seen systems like that, and n

Re: Networking help

2002-12-12 Thread Marc Evans
I use multiple default gateways on many 2.4.x linux systems. They work fine, and provide decent failover when routers go down for whatever reason. You may find it useful to contrast that with "ip route show" to see more details about the routing rules though. - Marc On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Derek Mar

Re: Networking help

2002-12-12 Thread Marc Evans
Smells like iptables or ipchains then. The ssh -v -v -v combined with tcpdump should provide a pretty good answer for you. - Marc On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In a message dated: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 15:22:03 EST > Kevin D. Clark said: > > >Can you just humor us and run "ipchains

Re: Networking help

2002-12-12 Thread pll
In a message dated: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 15:41:00 EST Michael O'Donnell said: Dude, you have two default gateways. This is almost always a problem on Linux boxen, IME. Lose one of them. >> >>This is standard when you have 2 interfaces. All my boxes are >>configured similarly, but this o

Re: Networking help

2002-12-12 Thread pll
In a message dated: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 15:31:30 EST Michael O'Donnell said: >> 0.0.0.0 10.241.38.1 0.0.0.0 UG 40 0 0 eth1 >> 0.0.0.0 192.168.10.10.0.0.0 UG 40 0 0 eth0 > >Are those multiple default routes, Yes, >which would be

Re: Networking help

2002-12-12 Thread pll
In a message dated: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 15:32:11 EST Derek Martin said: >Please try removing one of them. You may need to add a static route >to the other network. I have seen this cause problems on more than >one occasion. Removing the extra default route always fixed the >problem. I have, it d

Re: Networking help

2002-12-12 Thread pll
In a message dated: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 15:22:03 EST Kevin D. Clark said: >Can you just humor us and run "ipchains --flush" on the system that >won't respond to pings/ssh connections -- and then try again. (or do >whatever you have to do to ensure that the target machine isn't >configured to discar

Re: Networking help

2002-12-12 Thread pll
In a message dated: 12 Dec 2002 15:01:05 EST Ed Robbins said: >Paul, > >Can you draw a rough diagram of the layout. In your original post you >refer to them as SystemA, SystemB and SystemC. I find it helpful, to >know the layout with the addresses. >Where does 10.241.38.2 come into play? Is

Re: Networking help

2002-12-12 Thread Michael O'Donnell
>>> Dude, you have two default gateways. This is almost always >>> a problem on Linux boxen, IME. Lose one of them. > >This is standard when you have 2 interfaces. All my boxes are >configured similarly, but this one is the one exhibiting problems. Hmmm. I thought the whole point of a "def

Re: Networking help

2002-12-12 Thread Michael O'Donnell
> 0.0.0.0 10.241.38.1 0.0.0.0 UG 40 0 0 eth1 > 0.0.0.0 192.168.10.10.0.0.0 UG 40 0 0 eth0 Are those multiple default routes, which would be b0rken? ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [

Re: Networking help

2002-12-12 Thread pll
In a message dated: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 15:19:31 EST Marc Evans said: >I have seen that happen when a Cisco has packet filters turned on and is >blocking your ssh attempt. Unfortunately I don't think it's that easy, since I can ssh to/from other boxes on this subnet. Additionally, once this syste

Re: Networking help

2002-12-12 Thread pll
In a message dated: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:52:32 EST Derek Martin said: >> Dude, you have two default gateways. This is almost always a problem >> on Linux boxen, IME. Lose one of them. This is standard when you have 2 interfaces. All my boxes are configured similarly, but this one is the one e

Re: Networking help

2002-12-12 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Can you just humor us and run "ipchains --flush" on the system that won't respond to pings/ssh connections -- and then try again. (or do whatever you have to do to ensure that the target machine isn't configured to discard packets). Doing this on the source machine would be nice too, just for th

Re: Networking help

2002-12-12 Thread Marc Evans
I have seen that happen when a Cisco has packet filters turned on and is blocking your ssh attempt. - Marc On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Does this make sense to *anyone*? > > This information is from a system currently not responding to pings > (as described previously in the

Re: Networking help

2002-12-12 Thread Ed Robbins
Paul, Can you draw a rough diagram of the layout. In your original post you refer to them as SystemA, SystemB and SystemC. I find it helpful, to know the layout with the addresses. Where does 10.241.38.2 come into play? Is that another multi-homed box with an interface on the 168.159.36 netw

Re: Networking help

2002-12-12 Thread pll
Does this make sense to *anyone*? This information is from a system currently not responding to pings (as described previously in the thread). # ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:D0:A8:00:D6:DE inet addr:192.168.10.11 Bcast:192.168.10.255 Mask:255.255.255.0

Re: Networking help

2002-12-02 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Derek Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > tcpdump puts the interface in promiscuous mode. Not necessarily. This is a configurable option. (however, even if you don't open the interface in promiscuous mode, it might be in promiscuous mode for other reasons). Regards, --kevin -- Kevin D. Cla

Re: Networking help

2002-11-27 Thread pll
In a message dated: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 12:02:48 EST Derek Martin said: >tcpdump puts the interface in promiscuous mode. It doesn't care what >it's IP address is, or if it even has one... Duh! (as I smack my head) I should have realized that :) Thanks for the dope slap! >Of course, if the sy

Re: Networking help

2002-11-27 Thread pll
In a message dated: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 21:50:56 EST [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, at 8:23am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> Is the system multi-homed? If so, is there any chance it is sending the >>> packets out the wrong interface? >> >> Yes it is multi-homed, that's how I ssh to i

Re: Networking help

2002-11-26 Thread bscott
On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, at 8:23am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Is the system multi-homed? If so, is there any chance it is sending the >> packets out the wrong interface? > > Yes it is multi-homed, that's how I ssh to it. I ssh to systemB on > it's external interface, then to C on the internal int

Re: Networking help

2002-11-26 Thread pll
In a message dated: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 22:09:35 EST [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, at 3:29pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> However, by ssh'ing to systemB, and from there to systemC, I run 'tcpdump >> -i eth1 icmp' and I can see that systemC *is* in fact receiving the "icmp >> echo req

Re: Networking help

2002-11-25 Thread bscott
On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, at 3:29pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > However, by ssh'ing to systemB, and from there to systemC, I run 'tcpdump > -i eth1 icmp' and I can see that systemC *is* in fact receiving the "icmp > echo request" packets. systemC just isn't replying to them! That is significant.

Re: Networking help

2002-11-25 Thread pll
In a message dated: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 16:16:12 EST Dan Coutu said: >So we need to examine the possibility that System C doesn't know how to >reach System A even though A does know how to reach C. I'd check netmasks >on all the systems involved. If I am remembering right you're going from a >Cla

Re: Networking help

2002-11-25 Thread Dan Coutu
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 16:10:41 EST "Ken D'Ambrosio" said: I shouldn't be an ARP issue -- if it were, then the other machine sending pings wouldn't work. Namely: Keep in mind. The pinging machine, systemA *cannot* ping systemC, but *can* ping system

Re: Networking help

2002-11-25 Thread pll
In a message dated: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 16:10:41 EST "Ken D'Ambrosio" said: >I shouldn't be an ARP issue -- if it were, then the other machine sending >pings wouldn't work. Namely: Keep in mind. The pinging machine, systemA *cannot* ping systemC, but *can* ping systemB. B and C are on the same

Re: Networking help

2002-11-25 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
I shouldn't be an ARP issue -- if it were, then the other machine sending pings wouldn't work. Namely: - If it were an ARP issue on the primary pinging machine, then that would infer the something kaput with the default router's MAC -- since that's the only MAC that would matter in this scena

Re: Networking help

2002-11-25 Thread pll
In a message dated: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 10:22:24 EST Marc Evans said: >When I have seen these in the past, I have usually found them to be caused >by an ARP issue. Try flushing the arp cache on the systems involved and >then retry you experiment. The arp tables are usually empty when this occurs.

Re: Networking help

2002-11-25 Thread pll
In a message dated: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 10:02:11 EST Kevin D. Clark said: systemA 192.168.10.10 systemB 10.241.38.11 systemC 10.241.38.16 >Can you ping "A" from "C"? I can ping from/to systemA <-> systemB systemB <-> systemC but NOT systemA<->systemC. Whe

Re: Networking help

2002-11-25 Thread Marc Evans
When I have seen these in the past, I have usually found them to be caused by an ARP issue. Try flushing the arp cache on the systems involved and then retry you experiment. If that doesn't work, look at all routers on the network to insure that proxy-arp is disabled. - Marc On Mon, 25 Nov 2002 [

Re: Networking help

2002-11-25 Thread Kevin D. Clark
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Hi all, > > I have a very bizarre problem going on here. I have a system A > on a > different subnet. From my desktop, I ping the system B > and get no > response. > > I ssh to another system C > on the same subnet, and can ping that system. Can you ping

Networking help

2002-11-25 Thread pll
Hi all, I have a very bizarre problem going on here. I have a system on a different subnet. From my desktop, I ping the system and get no response. I ssh to another system on the same subnet, and can ping that system. Additionally, I can ssh to that system from the system on the same subne