Solaris/UNIX/networking experts, help me figure this out...

[slodave]

I was in the process of replacing my Linux server at home. New one was 80% ready when old server gave up the ghost. I pent 8-10 hrs trying to get the new server to route packets over from one interface to the other. Nothing, I could either get the internal network to respond or the external. Changed NIC cards, swapped cables, rebooted, tapped away at the keyboard - nothing...

Finally shut the server off and went to bed tired and pissed around 4:30 in the morning...

Woke up a few hours later, turned the server back on and it worked. Never did figure it out.

[masraum]

I've been working with Cisco routers and switches since about 1999, and got into their security stuff about 3 years later. Yeah, I've seen lots of weird behavior, like _____ not working, then you turn on a debug to see what's happening and it starts working. Sometimes the debug will turn something on and off like a switch.

Or back in the day when getting NAT to work consistently meant "no ip route-cache" had to be turned on everywhere.

[HardDrive]

*Sigh*

This whole post is making me nostalgic for my days in the trenches, cable maker in one hand, quad latte in the other......

*sip of merlot*

....ok, I'm over it.