RE: [ossig] Strange behaviour with server...

[Uwe Heinz Rudi Dippel <Udippel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Wong Weng Yee
Subject: [ossig] Strange behaviour with server...

> Next, I booted up the server and the network
> came up but could not contact the gateway. I got a lot of 
> internal network traffic, but still
> could not contact the GW.

William, here it would be good to know a bit more precisely what is going
on.
The usual sequence ping localhost - ping local NIC - ping any NIC on LAN -
ping GW delivers what ?
Can the server be contacted from the LAN ? From the GW ?

> When all else failed, I rebooted and behold 
> this time it was able to contact the GW.  Rebooted again, I had the same
> problems as the first time. Rebooted again, the GW was contactable.  I
> went on rebooting the server several times and I was only able to
> contact the GW every other reboot.  Hence, if i reboot 10 times i would
> fail to contact the GW half the time.  Anybody knows how to fix this
> twilight zone phenomena?

Which means it must 'remember' something and toggle this something. This is
perfectly possible, but would indicate a Settings problem much more than a
hardware problem.
What if it works / doesn't work and you simply restart the network
(eventually including changes of settings) ? What if you move from DHCP to
Fixed IP without reboot ? Is the behaviour with always DHCP the same of each
second boot succeeds ?

Lots of questions, I know ...

Uwe


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