Re: [nsp] Weird ATM/DSL problem? (fwd)

From: Michael K. Smith (mike@wackypackets.com)
Date: Thu Jan 18 2001 - 20:30:25 EST


Have you tried setting the arp timeout to 0? I think the command is 'arp
timeout 0'.

Mike

On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, John Gonzalez/netMDC admin wrote:

> I've got a customer setup on a test DSL link (actually, its us, not a
> customer, but you get the idea)
>
> The weird thing is, its up and running. However, we are pinging out from
> the machine, and the ping stops for no reason.. I can ping the ip from the
> router and all is well. For some reason, the router is dropping the
> machine out of the ARP table.. i can do a sh arp and it will only last
> about a minute before failing.. then, i ping it, and all is
> well. Sometimes it takes longer then a minute to stop working too, but a
> ping always brings it back...
>
> I'm wondering what i've done wrong.. we copied the config from our other
> dslams that are working fine... and they do not experience this.
>
> Is it a router setup prob, or perhaps something wrong with the windows
> box, or the DSLAM itself?
>
> i've tried changing the "arp" protocol, and setting arp-server self...
>
> Here is a small snippet of our cisco config...
>
> bridge irb
> !
> interface ATM2/0
> description ATM to conklin
> no ip address
> ip directed-broadcast
> no ip route-cache
> no ip mroute-cache
> atm vc-per-vp 256
> no atm ilmi-keepalive
> no scrambling-payload
> !
> interface ATM2/0.1 multipoint
> description PVC to AFC DSL
> ip directed-broadcast
> no ip route-cache
> no ip mroute-cache
> pvc 0/32
> protocol ip 63.162.109.66 broadcast
> !
> pvc 0/33
> protocol ip 63.162.109.67 broadcast
> !
> bridge-group 3
> bridge-group 3 spanning-disabled
> !
>
> interface BVI3
> description BVI for AFC DSLAM
> ip address 63.162.109.65 255.255.255.224
> no ip route-cache
> no ip mroute-cache
>
> --
> John Gonzalez / johng@netmdc.com / johng@tularosa.net
> Tularosa Communications, Inc. (505) 439-0200 voice / (505) 443-1228 fax
> http://www.tularosa.net / ASN 11711 / JG6416
> [----------------------------------------------[ sys info ]-----------]
> 1:50pm up 133 days, 20:19, 4 users, load average: 0.47, 0.28, 0.26
>
>
>

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