[arch-general] Strange network problem

Juan Diego Tascón juantascon at gmail.com
Mon Oct 29 23:24:21 EDT 2012


I got a similar problem once and it turned out to be a cable problem, have
you tried changing the cables and / or the network cards?

On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 5:03 AM, Damjan <gdamjan at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've got a strange problem with a machine that had a fresh install
>> three weeks ago. Nothing new has been installed on it since then.
>>
>> About one time in four, after that machine has been booted, a ssh
>> to it (on a LAN) fails with 'no route to host'.
>>
>
> 'no route to host' on a LAN (same ip range, right?) means the ARP
> resolution didn't work on the *client*.
>
> You need to check if ARP reply packets are received by the *client*,
> possibly with "tcpdump -i any arp"
>
> Also check "ip neigh" on the CLIENT to see what neighbours it knows about.
>
>
> --
> дамјан
>


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