heres a weird one.
I have a switched network with about 125 clients. All connect to 9 3com 3300 switches. I use a PIX 515 for internet access and reporting.
One fine day, several workstations stop working (unable to access internet), they are unable to ping the default gatewway (which is the PIX), they can ping any other machine on the network, and other machines on the network can ping them (the pix cannot ping them)
wait -- it gets weirder (is weirder a word?)
the ones that dont work are all older Compaq Deskpro EN 450 wth the Intel Pro100 card. The newer compaq deskpros (the p1.3ghz) have the same card, but are fine.
WAIT !!! THERES MORE
i just purchased 5 new Deskpro Evos, and they CANNOT PING THE PIX !!!
ACK!
so what I did to figure this thing out is to manually add the MAC of one machine to the PIX's ARP cache, then it works, but i dont really see that as a good solution --
the pix's arp config is default settings, never changed.
now what???
-BillyZ
I have a switched network with about 125 clients. All connect to 9 3com 3300 switches. I use a PIX 515 for internet access and reporting.
One fine day, several workstations stop working (unable to access internet), they are unable to ping the default gatewway (which is the PIX), they can ping any other machine on the network, and other machines on the network can ping them (the pix cannot ping them)
wait -- it gets weirder (is weirder a word?)
the ones that dont work are all older Compaq Deskpro EN 450 wth the Intel Pro100 card. The newer compaq deskpros (the p1.3ghz) have the same card, but are fine.
WAIT !!! THERES MORE
i just purchased 5 new Deskpro Evos, and they CANNOT PING THE PIX !!!
ACK!
so what I did to figure this thing out is to manually add the MAC of one machine to the PIX's ARP cache, then it works, but i dont really see that as a good solution --
the pix's arp config is default settings, never changed.
now what???
-BillyZ