From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ralf Baechle DL5RB Subject: Re: YAM/Tekk help Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 16:29:53 +0000 Message-ID: <20051116162953.GI3229@linux-mips.org> References: <20051116151748.GN3241@goldengate.vpizza.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051116151748.GN3241@goldengate.vpizza.org> Sender: linux-hams-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Jim Meehan Cc: linux-hams@vger.kernel.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