Antti Honkela wrote: > To be precise I can ping the gateway, the replies just don't get back > to ping in any reasonable time. tcpdump shows that the packets > actually do get out and I can even see the replies with > tcpdump -ni eth0 Note that without the -l switch, tcpdump's output will be fully buffered, which can result in output being significantly delayed. > but they don't seem get any further than that. If I wait long enough > the first packet comes back to ping after 74 seconds and the next ones > after that each 74 seconds after the previous one. The timings are based upon tcpdump's timestamps, not the time when the output appears, right? > The same behaviour occurs with three different machines all running > 2.2.16 kernel (RedHat 6.2/7.0 stock) with different NICs (eepro100 and > 3c59x). All the machines work fine in another network x.y.z'.0/24. > > Removing the default gateway restores the normal functionality for the > network x.y.z.0/28, but other traffic is obviously impossible. Odd. What is the situation on the gateway? What happens with regard to MAC addresses when you enable/disable the default route? -- Glynn Clements <glynn@sensei.co.uk> - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
