Jason Dixon writes: > On Sun, 2003-12-28 at 13:06, Robert Brown wrote: > > OK, now I am ready to incriminate the hubs! I started tcpdump on the > > eth0 port of the NIDS and all it could sniff was packets with its own > > address or braodcast packets such as arps. I then power cycled the > > hub. When the hub powered back up, tcpdump siffed 2 packets that did > > not have its own ip address as either src or dst, then it quit! I > > power cycled again: same thing -- 2 packets, then nada. It seems that > > these "hubs" are blocking traffic not destined for a port after a > > brief period of "proper hub-like" operation. > > Sorry for butting in late in the thread, but didn't you already mention > that these "hubs" worked fine with the same hosts running an older > kernel? Why would the change of kernel affect the behavior of dumb > network devices? Did I miss something? Yes, I said that, but maybe it was the previous hubs that worked fine. It was a bad tiome to be working on the network. It was Christmas Eve, I was coming down with the flu, Red Hat had just announced a kernel update that looked like it would help me with a firewall problem, I had just switched numerous NICs to upgrade from 10 to 100 MBPS, and of course I upgraded the hubs also. I was sure that it worked before the kernel upgrade, but now I am not so sure anymore. -- -------- "And there came a writing to him from Elijah" [2Ch 21:12] -------- R. J. Brown III rj@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.elilabs.com/~rj voice 859 567-7311 Elijah Laboratories Inc. P. O. Box 166, Warsaw KY 41095 fax 859 567-7311 ----- M o d e l i n g t h e M e t h o d s o f t h e M i n d ------ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
