On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Pat Plummer wrote:
> Both boxes were then booted back into their respective unix flavor. Each box
> can now ping the other again, but I note now that pings from BSD to Linux take
> anywhere from 6-24 msec (I don't remember that much delay prior), but are near
> instantaneous (0.5 msec) in the other direction (Linux>BSD) or if I ping the
> BSD box from itself. Not sure whether this is something to be concerned about
> or not.

While 6-24 ms does seem rather high for a local ethernet, I guess it's
fine if it works :)

> Any network activity in or out of the BSD machine generates scads of "mc0:
> collision error" msgs on the screen. Dave Huang has told me that this is
> normal, but can I suppress them somehow (short of a kernel recompile or upgrade
> to 1.5 alpha, which I can do but would rather get current problems under
> control first)? The error msgs make telnet etc nearly unreadable.

If you'd like, I can compile a kernel for you... either send me a kernel
configuration file, or I can send you a GENERIC kernel.

> I'll be trying to set up ip forwarding and masq again this evening to see if
> the same problems occur.
> 
> Enough rambling for now -- thanks for listening : ). Suggestions gratefully
> accepted...

No real suggestions... I don't have much experience with Linux's
ipchains stuff, but I did set it up for a friend once by following the
HOWTO on it, and it seemed rather obtuse compared to ipf/ipnat :) You
might try running tcpdump on the Linux side, or on both machines to see
what's going on.
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