[uw.mfcf.people] something weird with the network ...

jmsellens@watdragon.waterloo.edu (08/16/89)

From: "John M. Sellens" <jmsellens>

Trying to ping a host periodically shows long turn-around times (hundreds
of msec.).  I don't know what might be happening. etherfind on sol seemed
to show a lot of arp's.  Jim Barby thinks maybe the vlsi LanBridge
just needs to be slapped.  Something is weird with routing on all the
vlsi machines - they seem to forget the routes.  Even though routed is
running and they are ifconfig'd right, netstat -r shows very few routes.
Attempts to ping a vlsi machine usually fail, until you go to that machine
and ping out from it, which makes the other machine able to ping it.
Jim will get the bridge rebooted tomorrow morning.