From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 17 09:02:50 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8A5516A4CE for ; Wed, 17 Dec 2003 09:02:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.web.de (smtp04.web.de [217.72.192.208]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C5B443D69 for ; Wed, 17 Dec 2003 09:02:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kay_lehmann@web.de) Received: from lehmann.in-dsl.de ([212.42.238.240] helo=web.de) by smtp.web.de with asmtp (TLSv1:RC4-MD5:128) (WEB.DE 4.99 #566) id 1AWf44-0001Jr-00 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Wed, 17 Dec 2003 18:02:24 +0100 Message-ID: <3FE08CB9.70201@web.de> Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 18:04:57 +0100 From: Kay Lehmann User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; de-AT; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031121 X-Accept-Language: de-de, de, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <3FD742DD.70803@web.de> <20031210104822.J34418@carver.gumbysoft.com> <3FDF3F89.9000302@web.de> <20031216181057.GA27269@pit.databus.com> <3FDF8274.1000700@web.de> <3994077756.20031217005004@raadradd.com> <3FDFF934.3020100@web.de> <20031217173243.R1487@pukruppa.net> In-Reply-To: <20031217173243.R1487@pukruppa.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: kay_lehmann@web.de Subject: Re: once again 5.2 RC and watchdog timeout X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 17:02:50 -0000 Peter Ulrich Kruppa schrieb: > > When I throw in my 0.02 EUR, please bear in mind I am no kind of > OS specialist, but I have to fight a lot with deficient hardware > in our school's network. So here my experiences: > 1) Realteks are ok with workstations, but are no good with > servers. When requests from different machines arrive they > frequently give in. I never had any problems with Realteks on > my private computer at home (running -CURRENT). It is a workstation. > 2) Are you sure there are no IP conflicts in your network? If you > are using DHCP you should check it's address range. Yes I am sure. there are just 3-4 machines in my home-network (no dhcp) so this can't be the problem. > 3) Did you check for defect cables? If a NIC can only be run with > 10 Mbit this might be the reason. Yes I did check the cables. > 4) Do you have any routers? Check them too (a defect DSL router > might cause all kinds of troubles, though internet seems to > work). I am pretty sure that the router is ok and internet does work, but not with 5.2. Currently I am running 4-stable (on the same machine). The problems occured after upgrading from 5.1 to 5.2. > > Just trying to give some more hints: > > Uli. > > Thanks for your suggestions they are all very welcome. Greetings, Kay