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My 1394 LAN connection's "repair" function won't work because of the need to
flush the "ARP cache."  The error message says to contact the system
administrator -- that's me.  I repeat, where and what is it?  How does one
go about "flushing" it?

Thanks,
Jose

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Joseph Carrier <jercarrier@earthlink.net> wrote:
> My 1394 LAN connection's "repair" function won't work because of the
> need to flush the "ARP cache."  The error message says to contact the
> system administrator -- that's me.  I repeat, where and what is it?
> How does one go about "flushing" it?
>
> Thanks,
> Jose


Hint Address Resolution Protocol
See *arp /?*

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"Joseph Carrier" <jercarrier@earthlink.net> wrote in
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> My 1394 LAN connection's "repair" function won't work because of
> the need to flush the "ARP cache."  The error message says to
> contact the system administrator -- that's me.  I repeat, where
> and what is it?  How does one go about "flushing" it?
>

I am assuming WindowsXP...
From a command prompt:
arp -d *

HTH,
John

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try "ipconfig /flushdns" in dos box
Arkady

"Joseph Carrier" <jercarrier@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> My 1394 LAN connection's "repair" function won't work because of the need
to
> flush the "ARP cache."  The error message says to contact the system
> administrator -- that's me.  I repeat, where and what is it?  How does one
> go about "flushing" it?
>
> Thanks,
> Jose
>

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Thanks to you (and John Wunderlich and Madhur Ahuja,)  I flushed ARP
successfully.  Then I "released the ipconfig" (I have DHCP enabled) and
reconnected the 1394 cable.

Now my problem is that I have a 1394 LAN connection that cycles on and of
repeatedly so that I cannot use it.  My attempts to use the  "repair"
function all result in "failure to reset the IP configuration.'

I suppose I could have a bad 1394 cable or other hardware problem, but I
doubt it because it worked well very recently.  Is this cycling (with
varying intervals of a few seconds) of "connected" and "disconnected" the
symptom of any specific  IP configuration problem that you know of?  If so,
how can I find out what the problem is and how to resolve it?

Thanks again,
Joe

"Arkady Frenkel" <arkadyf@hotmailxdotx.com> wrote in message
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> try "ipconfig /flushdns" in dos box
> Arkady
>
> "Joseph Carrier" <jercarrier@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> to 
>
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Joseph Carrier <jercarrier@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Thanks to you (and John Wunderlich and Madhur Ahuja,)  I flushed ARP
> successfully.  Then I "released the ipconfig" (I have DHCP enabled)
> and reconnected the 1394 cable.
>
> Now my problem is that I have a 1394 LAN connection that cycles on
> and of repeatedly so that I cannot use it.  My attempts to use the
> "repair" function all result in "failure to reset the IP
> configuration.'
>
>  I suppose I could have a bad 1394 cable or other hardware problem,
> but I doubt it because it worked well very recently.  Is this cycling
> (with varying intervals of a few seconds) of "connected" and
> "disconnected" the symptom of any specific  IP configuration problem
> that you know of?  If so, how can I find out what the problem is and
> how to resolve it?
>
> Thanks again,
> Joe


The exact thing happened with me when I had a wrong connection to the RJ 45
connector.
For crossover cable and for hub connection, there are different colour
settings for the
wires to connect it to the connector. One of the wrong settings causes this
cycling of
connection and disconnection(in about 1 sec).


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