I have a 2600 unit which allows my remote sites to access a box in my main office.
Periodically, during the working day - not normally at night, the remote machines cannot access the box in the main office for a few seconds to a few minutes. They can't telnet or ping it.
The local machines can.
I have found that the IP address of the box in question is being dropped from the ARP Cache, and that I can put it back using the telnet interface to the 2600. It loses it again later.
To get around the problem at the moment I am using a Ping Alert program and a telnet scripting tool - if the alert program can't ping the box for 1 second, it runs the telnet script to manually add the ARP entry.
Is this a bug in the 2600 firmware?
Are there any alternatives to my kludge?
All comments welcome Regards
Griff
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Periodically, during the working day - not normally at night, the remote machines cannot access the box in the main office for a few seconds to a few minutes. They can't telnet or ping it.
The local machines can.
I have found that the IP address of the box in question is being dropped from the ARP Cache, and that I can put it back using the telnet interface to the 2600. It loses it again later.
To get around the problem at the moment I am using a Ping Alert program and a telnet scripting tool - if the alert program can't ping the box for 1 second, it runs the telnet script to manually add the ARP entry.
Is this a bug in the 2600 firmware?
Are there any alternatives to my kludge?
All comments welcome Regards
Griff
Keep [Smile]ing
