Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 19:39:07 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Steve Goldstone <steveg@holontech.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intermittant network problem Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970128193741.24983I-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <32E95451.5678@htc.sj.nec.com>
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On Fri, 24 Jan 1997, Steve Goldstone wrote: > I just install FreeBSD version 2.1.6 and ran into a really wierd network > problem: I can access other machines on the network (ping, telnet) from > the FreeBSD machine, but I can only intermittantly access the FreeBSD > machine from PCs and Sun machines. Sometimes ping works, sometimes it > doesn't. Telnet sometimes gets through but then freezes after logging > in; sometimes it does not get in. NFS sometimes mounts stuff, sometimes > freezes. > > The FreeBSD machine is an Intel Pentium 166, 3Com 3C509 NIC, Adaptec > 2940 SCSI card, ATI Mach64 PCI video card, Seagate hard drive and SCSI > CD-ROM, 32 MB RAM. Hm, your 3c509 may be spotty or using the same IRQ as another device in the system. Check that your card uses unique settings -- disable PnP on the card and hand-wire it if you have to. Can we see the output of 'netstat -rn' and 'netstat -i'? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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