From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 11 8:13:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dnai.com (dnai.com [207.181.194.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D2F537B503 for ; Wed, 11 Oct 2000 08:13:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from neptune.dnai.com (neptune.dnai.com [207.181.194.93]) by dnai.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA57352 for ; Wed, 11 Oct 2000 08:13:40 -0700 (PDT) From: andy@mini.chicago.com Received: from mini.chicago.com (dnai-216-15-39-222.cust.dnai.com [216.15.39.222]) by neptune.dnai.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA90939 for ; Wed, 11 Oct 2000 08:13:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from andy@localhost) by mini.chicago.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA39082 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 11 Oct 2000 08:15:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andy) Message-Id: <200010111515.IAA39082@mini.chicago.com> Subject: Network problems (4.x-stable w/LNE100TX) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 08:15:15 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am experiencing some strangeness with a newly installed system that I hope someone can help me with. It's a generic pentium II system with two LNE100TX NICs installed (complete with the 82c169 chip). I just finished building and installing the world so I'm up to 4.x-STABLE that's a couple of days old. The cards were probed and assigned the 'dc' driver on install so that's what I built into the kernel. I guess that's enough on the setup. As to the problem - the machine seems to work fine for a period of time (during which it's mostly idle since I'm not yet done setting it up). Then, at random times, the networking just seems to disappear. I can't ping the machine from outside and the machine can't ping out. Everything just seems to be dead as far as performing any networking operations goes. I have not tried running ifconfig on the NIC after things go south. Given how buggy the chips seem I guess I wouldn't be surprised if it could just be the boards. Could it be something else? Has this been experienced before? Is there any remedy? Does anyone have any other ideas? Any info/help would be appreciated. Andy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message