From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 6 14:49:05 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B67F2288 for ; Mon, 6 Jan 2014 14:49:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.lampscaled.net (ip-66-181-1-67.cust.i2bnetworks.com [66.181.1.67]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 94CCA1734 for ; Mon, 6 Jan 2014 14:49:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bass (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.lampscaled.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F3EA17025; Mon, 6 Jan 2014 06:42:06 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mail.lampscaled.net Received: from mail.lampscaled.net ([127.0.0.1]) by bass (mail.lampscaled.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id a4NxkloCqeMm; Mon, 6 Jan 2014 06:41:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from [10.0.1.3] (ip68-7-229-248.sd.sd.cox.net [68.7.229.248]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.lampscaled.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7C96C1701F; Mon, 6 Jan 2014 06:41:50 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1283) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Matthew Szubrycht In-Reply-To: <52CA8156.5070909@fjl.co.uk> Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 06:41:49 -0800 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: <52CA8156.5070909@fjl.co.uk> To: Frank Leonhardt X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1283) Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2014 14:49:05 -0000 On Jan 6, 2014, at 2:11 AM, Frank Leonhardt wrote: > On 06/01/2014 09:48, eras mus wrote: >> After a few minutes the sever >> console be pinged or ssh. In server console also the machine hungs = unable >> to enter root password in the prompt. If I do a power restart it is >> restarting up again and I can ssh also login from the console, but = after >> few minutes it hungs no ssh and pinging from LAN machine not = possible. How >> to trouble shoot, Please shed some light on it. >=20 > This sounds like a hardware problem. Do a proper RAM test if you can. = If this is okay, look at disk problems and if these are okay it is = probably a fault on the CPU or motherboard. >=20 > If you are worried it is a problem with your FreeBSD configuration, = start the machine from a LiveCD (or memory stick) and see if this is = stable, although this will not show up problems with the disk so easily. >=20 > Regards, Frank > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to = "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" I have experienced a similar problem a while back - the server would run = normally, then drop off the network for a random period of time, from a = few minutes to several hours. When I took a machine that had dropped = off the network on a console, there were no message of any kind = indicating any issues, the networking stack looked normal, but ping = would not get out of the box, just time out. The machines were brand = new Dells, with 8.1-RELEASE amd64 installed on them. Tracked it down to = the Broadcom (bce) NICs. Once swapped for Intel (igb) cards, the = problem went away. That was not the first problem I had with bce = network cards. If you use Broadcom NIC, try swapping it for a different brand and see = if the problem persists. =20 Cheers, Matt -- Matt Szubrycht "If 386BSD had been available when I started on Linux, Linux would = probably never had happened." - Linus Torvalds