Re: YAM/Tekk help

[Ralf Baechle DL5RB <ralf@linux-mips.org>]

On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 07:17:48AM -0800, Jim Meehan wrote:

> If I ping from either side, that machine sends out ARP requests endlessly.
> If I do "ifconfig" on the other side, I can see the RX packet counter
> incrementing, and in "listen" I can see the ARP requests being received.
> But no ARP reply is ever sent.  If I create a static ARP entries on both sides,
> then the machines can find each other, and I can ping in both directions.
> I guess it's not really such a problem to add static ARP entries on both sides,
> since there won't be any stations other than these two.  Would be nice to
> know why ARP isn't working though.

It this IP over raw AX.25 or IP over NET/ROM?  ARP works over AX.25 but
not over NET/ROM.  Anyway, the majority of sites deciede to disable ARP
and use static ARP tables simply because ARP uses some bandwidth and 9k6
isn't exactly alot.

  Ralf