Having Internet Problems

First, i want to say Thank You for your patience and advice. You've really stuck with this. Please tell me who I can give an "atta-boy" to on your behalf!

Regarding ARP:
a) I can't log into the router with Telnet. It wants a username/password combo which does not seem to be my own. That is why I looked at the DHCP table to confirm MAC number previously.
b) Sveasoft provides a command line feature. When I type "/sbin/arp -a", it comes back saying it doesn't know "arp"

Edit: a bit of internet searching turned up the username/password combo. But "arp" is still not found. Here is a listing of sbin and bin:

Code:

/sbin # ls
adjtimex         gpio             ifup             lsmod            process_monitor  route            vconfig
check_ps         halt             init             modprobe         rc               sendudp          watchdog
check_ses_led    hb_connect       insmod           nameif           reboot           setpasswd        wland
ddns_success     hb_disconnect    ipupdated        ntpd             redial           site_survey      wol
erase            hotplug          klogd            pivot_root       resetbutton      stats            write
filter           ifconfig         listen           poptop           restore          sysctl
filtersync       ifdown           logread          poweroff         rmmod            syslogd

/sbin # cd /bin
/bin # ls
ash       chmod     dd        egrep     grep      kill      mkdir     mv        ps        sed       sync      umount    watch
busybox   chown     df        false     gunzip    ln        mknod     netstat   pwd       sh        tar       uname     zcat
cat       cp        dmesg     fgrep     gzip      login     more      pidof     rm        sleep     touch     usleep
chgrp     date      echo      getopt    hostname  ls        mount     ping      rmdir     stty      true      vi

I configured XP with the Mac's IP - same result. The Mac kept flashing up a complaint dialog about the IP overlap.

My OSX version is 10.4.6.

About bridged adapter - it lists a "Default" and an "en2". There is no "en3" choice. I am set to "en2"

Users on another forum in a similar situation had success setting MTU 1400 instead of 1500 using DrTCP. When I try this, ipconfig says my MTU is 1500, so unless there is another way to set MTU, I can't try this experiment.

Edit: unrelated subject - looking through the system logs, it seems that Parallels does a lot of logging to the windowserver.log. It says: [79] "Parallels Desktop" (0x8a5f) set hot key operating mode to normal. It seems to do this several times per minute.

 

rammjet,

Regarding arp... Could you also check /usr/bin and /usr/sbin for arp utility?
Would you also mind pinging OSX from XP and then issue 'arp -an' in OSX and 'arp -a' from XP?

I did messed up 'en2: AirPort/Wireless Adapter' name. It should have been en2, not en3.

MTU is not be a problem in your case. You can try 'ping -f -l 1458 parallels.com' from XP to verify.

 

serv:

1) There is an "arping" in /usr/bin on router:

Code:

/usr/bin # ls
[           cut         find        id          nc          sort        test        tty         wc
arping      dc          free        install     nslookup    ssh         tftp        uniq        wget
awk         dirname     ftpget      killall     renice      strings     time        unzip       which
basename    du          ftpput      logger      reset       tail        top         uptime      whoami
clear       env         head        md5sum      rx          tee         tr          uudecode    xargs
cmp         expr        hexdump     mesg        scp         telnet      traceroute  uuencode    yes
/usr/bin # cd /usr/sbin
/usr/sbin # ls
bcrelay           dnsmasq           et                l2tpd             pppd              snmpd             upnp
bpalogin          dropbear          ez-ipupdate       nas               pppoe             svqos             wl
brctl             dropbearconvert   httpd             nas4not           pptp              tc                wlconf
chilli            dropbearkey       ip                nas4wds           pptpctrl          telnetd           wol
chroot            dumpleases        iptables          ntpclient         pptpd             tftpd             zebra
cron              ebtables          iptables-restore  nvram             rflow             udhcpc
dbclient          epi_ttcp          l2tp-control      ospfd             ripd              udhcpd

2) Pinged OSX from XP. Following are ARP's from OSX and XP:

Code:

$ arp -an
? (192.168.0.2) at 0:22:e1:86:f0:be on en2 [ethernet]
? (192.168.0.56) at 0:f:66:41:d8:ab on en2 [ethernet]


Interface: 192.168.0.2 --- 0x2

  Internet Address      Physical Address      Type

  192.168.0.1           00-30-bd-f3-5e-ec     dynamic