no network access on today's CURRENT

[Bruce M. Simpson]

Scot Hetzel wrote:
> I had a similar problem with rl(4), but thought it was due to the
> wireless radio (wireless ISP) that was the cause of the problem due to
> storms last night.  I did notice, while running tcpdump, that FreeBSD
> was trying to obtain the mac address of the wireless radio, but the
> radio wasn't responding. I then used 'arp -s <IP of wireless radio>
> <MAC for wireless radio>'
>
> This morning it still wasn't working, so I powercycled the radio, and
> the ethernet switch.  I then noticed that the radio was now trying to
> obtain the mac address of the FreeBSD system, but it wasn't
> responding.  Tried ifconfig rl0 down/up of the interface and it still
> wasn't sending out arp replies.  Rebooted the system, and now I can
> access the internet thru this system.

Are you able to tcpdump at both ends when this happens? Please see my 
reply to Denis for more diagnostics which would be required.

Regards,
BMS