On 4/6/99 7:31 PM, Fischer, Roger was rumored to have said...

I have noticed the same weirdness with NAT.  I am running NAT on a Quadra 
610 tied into the ethernet Network with my 8100 running 8.5.1 or 8.6b4 
(depending on which drive I boot from)

Everything will be going along fine and then all of a sudden packets from 
the 8100 out tothe net just quit.  I can do whatever I want from within 
BSD.  I don't know how to effectively restart my ethernet connection, so 
I reboot, then it all works fine, sometimes for a few minutes, other 
times for up to 5 days, there seems to be no real pattern here that I can 
discern.

Greg

>I'm running NAT on my Centris610/NetBSD 1.3.3 box, tied into
>an ethernet network with my G3 running MacOS 8.5
>
>Recently I seem to be having some problems where NetBSD won't
>pass data from my G3 onto the Net.
>
>Sometimes I'll que up 5 or 6 messages using Eudora, and go to
>send them.  The first 3 will go, and the fourth just sits there.
>I'll hit cancel, and hit send again, but that message won't go.
>
>If I kill NetBSD/PPP and then dial into my ISP from the G3 using
>FreePPP, the messages sail right on through.
>
>Additionally, my wife was browing the web recently.  Most pages
>were loading fine.  One page had links that she'd click on, and
>nothing would happen.  Other pages were fine.  We tried typing
>in the url and it wouldn't load the page.
>
>I hung up the NetBSD ppp linke and dialed in using FreePPP from
>MacOS, and those pages loaded fine.
>
>
>Should I be "escaping" some characters or something?  If so,
>what range of characters.  On the other hand, I don't remember
>having this problem before.  It's been a while since I used my
>MacBSD box as a gateway.
>
>thanks,
>Roger G. Fischer                    PanAmSat Corp.
>Email: rfischer@panamsat.com