Re: Strange logs...

[Antony Stone <Antony@Soft-Solutions.co.uk>]

On Sunday 11 January 2004 1:59 pm, Carlos Fernandez Sanz wrote:

> > Your IRQ/address etc setup looks fine to me, however there is clearly
> > something weird about the network hardware arrangement for you to get the
> > above-described ping behaviour.
>
> Such as the router and the switch being connected for no reason? I was
> obviously on crack when I set that up.... just found out that was the
> problem.... strange that everything would work perfectly for hours then
> stop working for minutes, etc... probably a table filling up in the switch
> or the router or both :-)

I'd put it down to the arp caches getting (mightily) confused about where to 
find things.   Never mind the degree to which a security engineer's eyebrow 
would rise upon realising your switch was connected to both sides of your 
firewall :)

Regards,

Antony.

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