On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Chad Scott wrote:
> On Monday, February 23, 1998 10:16 AM, modem@ccbc.ml.org
> [SMTP:modem@ccbc.ml.org] wrote:
> > I asked about this before but I had to clear my mail box cause I let it
> > get too big =(
> >
> > Portmaster 2e - 10 port 1 meg ram ComOS 3.7.2
> >
> > Portmaster ip 209.114.138.231
> > Assigned Address (ip's for modems) 209.114.138.232-242
> >
> > Whenever any ppp client machine dials into the portmaster and happens to
> > be assigned the address 209.114.138.241 that ip acts like it is dead, it
> > can't ping the router, or anything. All the other ip's work fine
> >
> > However if I take a win95 box on the same network as the portmaster
> > hooked up on ethernet and assigned it 209.114.138.241 the ip works fine
> >
> > ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
> >
> > This is driving me nutz!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> You've probably caused your problem by trying to correct it. I'd bet the
> router has an ARP entry cached for the Windows95 machine from the first
> time you plugged it into the network.
>
> If you have a Bay Networks or Wellfleet router, they're infamous for an ARP
> cache that doesn't expire correctly. Try restarting the router.
>
> If you have a Cisco, just clear the arp cache with 'clear arp-cache'.
>
> Hope this helps.
> -Chad
>
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