Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 Jan 1999 07:57:24 +0000 | From | Volker Dormeyer <> | Subject | Re: ip/arp problems in switched environment (kernel 2.0.36) |
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Matthias Welwarsky wrote:
> Ethernet and Token Ring have different bit transmit order on the wire. > LSB/MSB first is reversed. If you look at the MAC-Addresses and flip the > bits around you'll see that the switch hasn't really translated the > address. It's just the same address with the bits in each byte swapped. > You've provided too little information to precisely say what's going > wrong. A dump of the arp packets on both sides of the switch would have > helped much.
Hi Mathias,
Of course, thats what I meant with translation.
> I'd carefully look at the configuration of the switch. Seems that it > already does some translations to make IPX work, maybe others are needed > for ARP. If the switch translated the MAC addresses of the packets but > not the MAC address *within* the ARP reply packet, you're lost ;-)
Ok, I will do some further tests with a packet sniffer before and behind the switch.
thanks for your answer...
-Volker-
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