From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Nov 8 10:41:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA17975 for stable-outgoing; Sat, 8 Nov 1997 10:41:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable) Received: from salmon.maths.tcd.ie (salmon.maths.tcd.ie [134.226.81.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id KAA17956 for ; Sat, 8 Nov 1997 10:40:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie) Received: from salmon.maths.tcd.ie by salmon.maths.tcd.ie via local-salmon id aa04247; 8 Nov 97 18:40 +0000 To: Wes Peters cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hard wiring media type on de0 driver. In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 07 Nov 1997 21:29:09 MST." <199711080429.VAA25638@obie.softweyr.ml.org> Date: Sat, 08 Nov 1997 18:40:48 +0000 From: David Malone Message-ID: <9711081840.aa04247@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Nope, they'll shut off anytime you lose the connectivity. I don't think > they actually switched; "ifconfig de0 up" will bring them back also. > I'd suggest either a better hub (90 seconds to restart a hub?) or a UPS > for your network stack. I have suggestions on quality networking > components if you're in the market. ;^) Its actually a Cisco Catalyst 2500 - We were given them 'cos they have a nasty bug if you have TCP/IP turned on. On the whole they are fine. I'm not actually sure why it fell over - I don't think it was a power problem. Maybe I should put a "ifconfig de0 media UTP" in cron.... David.