Subject: Re: Gateway problem: was Resolv.conf Help Needed
To: Nigel Reed <nigel@nelgin.nu>
From: Michael Owens <owensmk@earthlink.net>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 06/28/2001 18:38:12
Yep, this is the first card I have ever recycled. And yes, it had a different 
IP address. I'll restart the gateway tomorrow and see what happens. Thanks 
for the tip.

On Thursday 28 June 2001 16:30, Nigel Reed wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 03:49:51PM -0500, Michael Owens wrote:
> > But I _can_ ping out. And I can telnet out from another machine on the
> > same network using the same gateway.
>
> This may be a stupid question - was this network card in another machine at
> another time with a different IP address? I'd had a problem with my cable
> modem caching MAC & IP addresses. If the gateway has the MAC cached with
> a different IP address - that'll stop it.
>
> Regards
> Nigel

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