okay race fans here we go:
Keep in mind that the computer right next to it ( The wifes win95 machine ) can
get to www.weather.com without fail everytime.

I'm running a 1.4.1 userland and a 1.4.2_ALPHA kernel.

I tried to go to www.weather.com for a couple of days and it wouldnt work so I
thought .. well lets see whats up.
I found that in NetBSD 1.4.2_ALPHA in the console -no X- I could ping
www.weather.com
I could also ping it in an xterm prior to opening up netscape.

When I open netscape and try to get to the site it gives me some erronious
error about the document containing no data.
So after that I try to ping www.weather.com and it said something about
"communication prohibited..." as you can see below.

before opening netscape:
------------------------------------------------------------------
(root@jennifer) ping www.weather.com
PING www.weather.com (206.151.166.121): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 206.151.166.121: icmp_seq=0 ttl=49 time=368.555 ms
64 bytes from 206.151.166.121: icmp_seq=1 ttl=49 time=313.966 ms
64 bytes from 206.151.166.121: icmp_seq=2 ttl=49 time=223.870 ms
64 bytes from 206.151.166.121: icmp_seq=3 ttl=49 time=243.760 ms
^C
----www.weather.com PING Statistics----
4 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 223.870/287.538/368.555/66.414 ms

---------------------------------------------------------------------
opening netscape:

(root@jennifer) netscape &
[1] 238

----------------------------------------------------------------------
then trying to ping again:

(root@jennifer) ping www.weather.com
PING www.weather.com (206.79.180.6): 56 data bytes
36 bytes from 216.33.138.170: Communication prohibited for icmp_seq=0
36 bytes from 216.33.138.170: Communication prohibited for icmp_seq=2
36 bytes from 216.33.138.170: Communication prohibited for icmp_seq=4
36 bytes from 216.33.138.170: Communication prohibited for icmp_seq=5
36 bytes from 216.33.138.170: Communication prohibited for icmp_seq=6
36 bytes from 216.33.138.170: Communication prohibited for icmp_seq=8
36 bytes from 216.33.138.170: Communication prohibited for icmp_seq=9
36 bytes from 216.33.138.170: Communication prohibited for icmp_seq=10
36 bytes from 216.33.138.170: Communication prohibited for icmp_seq=11
^C
----www.weather.com PING Statistics----
12 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100.0% packet loss
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

here's a tcpdump during the 'attempted' netscape connection:

tcpdump: listening on rl0
01:48:24.989871 192.168.0.1.65523 > 206.151.166.135.www: S
2639927936:2639927936(0) win 16384 <mss 1460,nop,wscale
0,nop,nop,timestamp[|tcp]>
01:48:25.210671 206.151.166.135.www > 192.168.0.1.65523: S
1031583744:1031583744(0) ack 2639927937 win 10136 <nop,nop,timestamp 33727424
1934,nop,[|tcp]>
01:48:25.210773 192.168.0.1.65523 > 206.151.166.135.www: . ack 1 win 17520
<nop,nop,timestamp 1935 33727424>
01:48:25.211176 192.168.0.1.65523 > 206.151.166.135.www: P 1:288(287) ack 1 win
17520 <nop,nop,timestamp 1935 33727424>
01:48:25.512429 192.168.0.1.65480 > grucom1.gru.net.domain: 23586+ (46)
01:48:25.680677 grucom1.gru.net.domain > 192.168.0.1.65480: 23586 NXDomain
0/1/0 (103)
01:48:25.681533 192.168.0.1.65479 > grucom1.gru.net.domain: 23587+ (42)
01:48:25.850603 grucom1.gru.net.domain > 192.168.0.1.65479: 23587 NXDomain
0/1/0 (104)
01:48:26.540100 192.168.0.1.65523 > 206.151.166.135.www: P 1:288(287) ack 1 win
17520 <nop,nop,timestamp 1937 33727424>
01:48:26.850516 192.168.0.1.65478 > grucom1.gru.net.domain: 23588+ (45)
01:48:27.010479 grucom1.gru.net.domain > 192.168.0.1.65478: 23588* 2/0/0 (92)
01:48:29.540094 192.168.0.1.65523 > 206.151.166.135.www: P 1:288(287) ack 1 win
17520 <nop,nop,timestamp 1943 33727424>
01:48:35.540087 192.168.0.1.65523 > 206.151.166.135.www: P 1:288(287) ack 1 win
17520 <nop,nop,timestamp 1955 33727424>
01:48:47.540097 192.168.0.1.65523 > 206.151.166.135.www: P 1:288(287) ack 1 win
17520 <nop,nop,timestamp 1979 33727424>
01:48:55.486585 206.151.166.135.www > 192.168.0.1.65523: F 1:1(0) ack 1 win
10136 <nop,nop,timestamp 33730453 1935>
01:48:55.486663 192.168.0.1.65523 > 206.151.166.135.www: . ack 2 win 17520
<nop,nop,timestamp 1995 33730453>
01:48:55.487526 192.168.0.1.65523 > 206.151.166.135.www: F 288:288(0) ack 2 win
17520 <nop,nop,timestamp 1995 33730453>
01:48:56.010650 192.168.0.1.65477 > grucom1.gru.net.domain: 23589+ (42)

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
heres a tcpdump during a ping www.weather.com:

tcpdump: listening on rl0
01:50:36.746878 192.168.0.1.65476 > grucom1.gru.net.domain: 53996+ (33)
01:50:36.902779 grucom1.gru.net.domain > 192.168.0.1.65476: 53996 4/0/0 (97)
01:50:36.904178 192.168.0.1 > 206.151.166.135: icmp: echo request
01:50:37.162596 206.151.166.135 > 192.168.0.1: icmp: echo reply
01:50:37.261648 192.168.0.1.65475 > grucom1.gru.net.domain: 28978+ (45)
01:50:37.422605 grucom1.gru.net.domain > 192.168.0.1.65475: 28978* 2/0/0 (92)
01:50:37.423328 192.168.0.1.65474 > grucom1.gru.net.domain: 28979+ (42)
01:50:37.722596 grucom1.gru.net.domain > 192.168.0.1.65474: 28979 NXDomain*-
0/1/0 (124)
01:50:37.723183 192.168.0.1.65473 > grucom1.gru.net.domain: 28980+ (46)
01:50:37.910109 192.168.0.1 > 206.151.166.135: icmp: echo request
01:50:38.002535 grucom1.gru.net.domain > 192.168.0.1.65473: 28980 NXDomain*
0/1/0 (127)
01:50:38.142459 206.151.166.135 > 192.168.0.1: icmp: echo reply
01:50:38.910113 192.168.0.1 > 206.151.166.135: icmp: echo request
01:50:39.142315 206.151.166.135 > 192.168.0.1: icmp: echo reply
01:50:39.910114 192.168.0.1 > 206.151.166.135: icmp: echo request
01:50:40.142201 206.151.166.135 > 192.168.0.1: icmp: echo reply
01:50:40.910109 192.168.0.1 > 206.151.166.135: icmp: echo request
01:50:41.122162 206.151.166.135 > 192.168.0.1: icmp: echo reply

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I'm using a rtl8139 based NIC @ 10mbps which works really well as far as I can
tell. Here's a dmesg anyhow just in case:

NetBSD 1.4.2_ALPHA (GENERIC) #20: Tue Dec 21 02:34:52 MET 1999
    he@vever.runit.sintef.no:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
cpu0: family 5 model 8 step c
cpu0: AMD K6-2 (586-class)
real mem  = 167378944
avail mem = 151502848
using 2068 buffers containing 8470528 bytes of memory
mainbus0 (root)
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1
pci0: i/o enabled, memory enabled
pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0
pchb0: Silicon Integrated System product 0x5591 (rev. 0x02)
pciide0 at pci0 dev 0 function 1: Silicon Integrated System 5597/5598 IDE
controller
pciide0: bus-master DMA support present
pciide0: primary channel wired to compatibility mode
atapibus0 at pciide0 channel 0
cd0 at atapibus0 drive 1: <ATAPI CDROM, , V1.20> type 5 cdrom removable
cd0: 32-bits data port
cd0: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 1
wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <Maxtor 86480D6>
wd0: drive supports 16-sector pio transfers, lba addressing
wd0: 6181MB, 13395 cyl, 15 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 12658776 sectors
wd0: 32-bits data port
wd0: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 2
pciide0: primary channel interrupting at irq 14
pciide0: secondary channel wired to compatibility mode
pciide0: disabling secondary channel (no drives)
wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 (using DMA data transfers)
cd0(pciide0:0:1): using PIO mode 3, DMA mode 1 (using DMA data transfers)
pcib0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0
pcib0: Silicon Integrated System 85C503 or 5597/5598 ISA bridge (rev. 0x01)
Silicon Integrated System product 0x0009 (undefined subclass 0x00) at pci0 dev
1 function 1 not configured
ohci0 at pci0 dev 1 function 2: Silicon Integrated System 5597/5598 USB host
controller (rev. 0x11)
ohci0: interrupting at irq 10
ohci0: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support
usb0 at ohci0
uhub0 at usb0
uhub0: Silicon Integrat OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
ppb0 at pci0 dev 2 function 0: Silicon Integrated System 86C201 (rev. 0x00)
pci1 at ppb0 bus 1
pci1: i/o enabled, memory enabled
Silicon Integrated System product 0x6326 (VGA display, revision 0x0b) at pci1
dev 0 function 0 not configured
rl0 at pci0 dev 9 function 0: RealTek 8139 Ethernet (id 0x8139)
rl0: interrupting at irq 3
rl0: Ethernet address: 00:4f:4e:00:97:5c
ukphy0 at rl0 phy 7: Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface
ukphy0: OUI 0x000000, model 0x0000, rev. 0
ukphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
vga1 at pci0 dev 11 function 0: Martin-Marietta Corporation product 0x00d1
(rev. 0x01)
wsdisplay0 at vga1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation)
isa0 at pcib0
com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4: ns16550a, working fifo
pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60-0x64
pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot)
pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot
wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard
pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61
midi0 at pcppi0: <PC speaker>
sysbeep0 at pcppi0
isapnp0 at isa0 port 0x279: ISA Plug 'n Play device support
npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0-0xff: using exception 16
fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2
fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB, 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec
isapnp0: read port 0x203
isapnp0: <CMI8330/C3D Audio Adapter, @@@0001, , > port 0x530/8,0x388/8 irq 11
drq 0 not configured
isapnp0: <CMI8330/C3D Audio Adapter, @H@0001, , > port 0x330/2 irq 9 not
configured
isapnp0: <CMI8330/C3D Audio Adapter, @P@0001, , > port 0x200/8 not configured
sb1 at isapnp0 port 0x220/16 irq 5 drq 1,5
sb1: CMI8330/C3D Audio Adapter : dsp v4.13
audio0 at sb1: full duplex
opl0 at sb1: model OPL3
midi1 at opl0: <SB Yamaha OPL3>
biomask 4440 netmask 4448 ttymask 444a
wscons: wskbd0 glued to wsdisplay0 (console)
boot device: wd0
root on wd0a dumps on wd0b
root file system type: ffs
wsdisplay0: screen 2 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
wsdisplay0: screen 3 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
wsdisplay0: screen 4 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)


I figured you guys may want to know about this.
cheers
Tony Hernandez
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E-Mail: Tony Hernandez <dbsaint@gru.net>
Date: 02-Feb-00
Time: 01:41:48

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