Re: strange networking stack?

[Eric Haszlakiewicz <erh%nimenees.com@localhost>]

On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 09:44:00AM -0500, Noah McNallie wrote:
> I'm not quite sure if the mailing list is the adequate place for this 
> but I can't think of where else to place it that will get the views of 
> anyone that could have an idea what is going on.
> 
> I have a sun ultra 30, in my current living situation i don't have an 
> option to make it my nat router, so sadly i'm behind a linksys. I bought 
> a wifi to ethernet bridge to support this configuration. The bridge 
> works fine on my laptop which is opensolaris, though on netbsd (and i 
> just don't understand how it could be related to the os) it will stop 
> bridging packets after a few minutes and will require a steady ping or 

does this mean it stops bridging all packets, or just the ones from the
NetBSD machine?
Are both the laptop and the ultra 30 talking over wifi?  i.e.
<laptop>   -----\
                --wifi--- <bridge> ---- ethernet ---- <linksys> --- 'net ---
<ultra 30> -----/

> equivalent stream to be sent over it for about 30 seconds until the 
> linksys does (or appears and does) to respond. I put solaris 10 on the 
> ultra 30 and there was no problem with this at all. I feel i've tried 
> everything.

My first thought would be to run tcpdump at various points and see what's
actually getting sent, and see if there's some obvious differences that
jump out at me.  You say you've tried "everything", but it might be helpful
to actually explain in a bit more detail what you've tried.

eric