Marvell chipsets on 8-CURRENT and XP x64 won't talk with one another

[Garrett Cooper]

Mike Silbersack wrote:
>
> On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Garrett Cooper wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>     In an effort to connect my 2 machines up -- the FreeBSD 8-CURRENT 
>> and the Windows box, for filesharing via SMB I've installed samba3 
>> and done that song and dance to get things to work. The really weird 
>> thing is that my 2 machines will talk via ICMP with one another, but 
>> not via TCP and/or UDP (connections time out). Thinking that it was 
>> just a samba3 issue, I tried ssh as well (Cygwin installed), and ssh 
>> connections (Windows to FreeBSD) fails with connection timeouts as well.
>>     Both machines have Marvell onboard chipsets and will communicate 
>> with my Mac OSX 10.4.9 iBook (has a Broadcom chipset) without issue 
>> (in fact that's what I'm using as my 'bridge' right now). I tried 
>> also using an SMB client via my Xbox but that failed as well (then 
>> again the XBMC SMB client tended to be really quirky if setup 
>> incorrectly).
>>     I'm not sure where to start, so if there are any ideas I'd be 
>> more than happy to hear them. This issue has been occurring from 
>> 7-CURRENT built in late September to 8-CURRENT built 6 days ago.
>> Thanks,
>> -Garrett
>
> Just to clarify, how are the two hooked together?  Is it over gigabit 
> switch, a 10mbps hub, or directly cabled together?
>
> -Mike
    To make things more interesting, both machines are hooked up using 
private IPs, and neither machine has a true router setup (I did put in a 
dummy gateway though because the Windows machine and the FreeBSD 
machines weren't setting the default route to the private subnet properly).
-Garrett