From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 12 15:15:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sand2.sentex.ca (sand2.sentex.ca [209.167.248.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 130F337B51F for ; Sun, 12 Mar 2000 15:15:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from granite.sentex.net (granite-atm.sentex.ca [209.112.4.1]) by sand2.sentex.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA32551; Sun, 12 Mar 2000 18:15:33 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from chimp.simianscience.com (ospf-mdt.sentex.net [205.211.164.81]) by granite.sentex.net (8.8.8/8.6.9) with SMTP id SAA15374; Sun, 12 Mar 2000 18:15:32 -0500 (EST) From: mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa) To: bleez@netaxs.com (Bryan Liesner) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unexplained network outages Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 23:14:45 GMT Message-ID: <38cc24b7.1557031573@mail.sentex.net> References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent .99e/32.227 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 11 Mar 2000 10:19:26 -0500, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: >unable to ping the win98 box and cannot ping the FreeBSD box from the >win98 box. No error/console messages. I can bring it back to life by >doing an ifconfig dc1 down/up, then pinging the win98 box. Has anyone If you forces the media type (instead of autosense), does it make a difference ? ---Mike Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) Sentex Communications Corp, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers could setup a national IP network." (KDW2) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message