Hello Cory,
Thursday, February 15, 2007, 2:40:51 AM, you wrote:
> Hello all,
> My OpenBSD firewall is still randomly stopping routing packets and I

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> still can't figure out why. :-(

> I made the suggested patch to if_ether.c, ut now I just get the

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> following line in /var log messages:

> Feb 14 18:08:41 bytor /bsd: arpresolve: can't allocate llinfo for

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> 192.168.1.1:no link address

> Symptoms: Firewall can ping the wifi router (to which ADSL modem is

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> attached), but pinging anything beyond it fails. If I try to traceroute

> to some place beyond the router, it doesn't show the router as the first

> hop. (If it can ping the router, shouldn't it show up a the first hop on

> a traceroute?). Even though the firewall can ping the router, it cannot

> ping my laptop, even though the route to both goes out ral0. The laptop

> cannot ping the firewall either. I know the router is still working

> because my laptop can still access the internet through it once I reset

> the default gateway to the router instead of the firewall. IPv6 ssh

> connections form the laptop to the firewall stay active.

> Things is, "arp -a" and "route -n show -inet" show extactly the same

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> thing whether the problem is currently in progress or everything is

> working perfectly. No NICs accidentally have addresses on the wrong segment.

> I had routed running, but stopping it has made no difference.
> Anybody have any ideas?
> [cory@bytor] 1:03:58 [9]/etc> arp -a

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> bytor (192.168.0.1) at 00:0e:0c:bc:38:9d on em1 static

> xanadu (192.168.0.2) at 00:0e:0c:b9:4d:ed on em1

> heechee.wireless (192.168.1.1) at 00:13:10:0e:0b:08 on ral0

> snowdog.wireless (192.168.1.3) at 00:12:17:60:fe:40 on ral0

> redbarchetta.wireless.fenris.cjb.net (192.168.1.191) at

> 00:18:de:20:4f:2e on ral0

> bytor (192.168.16.1) at 00:0e:0c:b9:50:74 on em0 static

> snowdog (192.168.16.2) at 00:15:f2:e8:7f:51 on em0

> [cory@bytor] 1:04:03 [10]/etc> route -n show -inet

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> Routing tables

> Internet:

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> Destination   Gateway            Flags    Refs      Use    Mtu  Interface

> default       192.168.1.1        UGS        16   188916      -   ral0

> 127.0.0.1     127.0.0.1          UH          2     6049  33224   lo0

> 192.168.0/24  link#3             UC          2        0      -   em1

> 192.168.0.1   00:0e:0c:bc:38:9d  UHLc        9   996889      -   lo0

> 192.168.0.2   00:0e:0c:b9:4d:ed  UHLc        1    56064      -   em1

> 192.168.1/24  link#4             UC          3        0      -   ral0

> 192.168.1.1   00:13:10:0e:0b:08  UHLc        2     3272      -   ral0

> 192.168.1.3   00:12:17:60:fe:40  UHLc        0      483      -   ral0

> 192.168.1.191 00:18:de:20:4f:2e  UHLc        0     4587      -   ral0

> 192.168.2/24  link#1             UC          0        0      -   fxp0

> 192.168.16/24 link#2             UC          2        0      -   em0

> 192.168.16.1  00:0e:0c:b9:50:74  UHLc        0       50      -   lo0

> 192.168.16.2  00:15:f2:e8:7f:51  UHLc        5   392664      -   em0

> [cory@bytor] 1:04:13 [11]/etc> cat hostname.ral0

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> inet 192.168.1.2 255.255.255.0 192.168.1.255 nwid fenris nwkey

>   0x0A18135EB54723927B64AB65BC

> inet6 alias 2001:05c0:92cf:1::c0a8:0102 64

> [cory@bytor] 1:06:08 [12]/etc> cat hostname.em0

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> inet 192.168.16.1 255.255.255.0 192.168.16.255

> inet6 alias 2001:05c0:92cf:10::c0a8:1001 64

> [cory@bytor] 1:06:18 [13]/etc> cat hostname.em1

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> inet 192.168.0.1 255.255.255.0 192.168.0.255

> inet6 alias 2001:05c0:92cf:0::c0a8:0001 64

> [cory@bytor] 1:06:33 [14]/etc> cat hostname.fxp0

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> inet 192.168.2.1 255.255.255.0 192.168.2.255

> inet6 alias 2001:5c0:92cf:2::c0a8:0201 64

I had this issue before and it turned out to be a bad NIC.
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Best regards,

 Shane
homepage: http://craz1.homelinux.com