Sorry for responding to my own post, but the attachment didn't get attached.
Mike
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 10:57am mmadore <mmadore@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am seeing some strange behavior with the changes to the neighbour/arp code
> that went into the 2.4.28 kernel. When I first boot the system with 2.4.28,
> I cannot connect to other machines on my network. If I print out the arp
> table, I will see something like this:
>
> [root@node1 root]# arp
> Address HWtype HWaddress Flags Mask
> Ifaceiserver.mynet.com (incomplete)
> eth0
> dns.mynet.com ether 00:90:27:34:5F:6A C
> eth0
> iserver.mynet.com ether 00:E0:81:04:DC:F0 C
> eth0
>
> For some reason, the system I am trying to connect to shows up twice. If I
> bring down eth0 and then start it again, I can then connect to the system.
> Also, If I wait for a number of minutes, the (incomplete) entry will
> disappear from the arp table and I can connect to the system.
>
> If I apply the attached path to backout the arp/neighbour changes, then
> everthing seems to work fine.
>
> The problem only occurs with 2.4.28. Both 2.4.27 and 2.6.9 work correctly.
> Also, I have reproduced this issue on RedHat 7.3, 8.0, 9 and Fedora Core 1
> (using 2.4.28) with both Intel e1000 and Marvell gigabit (sk98lin).
>
> Let me know if I can provide additional information.
>
> Mike
>
>
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