From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 8 2:54:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from goblin.apana.org.au (goblin.apana.org.au [203.3.126.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C59715681 for ; Wed, 8 Sep 1999 02:54:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by goblin.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA23403; Wed, 8 Sep 1999 20:14:01 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 20:14:01 +1000 (EST) From: dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au Message-Id: <199909081014.UAA23403@goblin.apana.org.au> Received: from oracle.apana.org.au(203.3.126.130), claiming to be "oracle" via SMTP by goblin.apana.org.au, id smtpdQ23401; Wed Sep 8 20:13:49 1999 X-Mailer: SendM@ail V1.09 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, bruce@kit.net.au Subject: Re: Network problem... Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I just noticed you are a fellow Australian :) I've had no end of funny problems like that in the past and always had the feeling it was server (ISP) related. Since moving from commercial ISP's to a non-profit organization I find I get very few of the weird problems that I could never resolve before. My setup is fairly similar to yours .... BSD gateway & Win98 workstations (plus one Solaris) and its very satisfactory now although I did receive HEAPS of assistance from the list to get it sorted out initially. If you are using MSIE5 that could be another cause of the trouble .... I've had a few problems with it going into a coma (happens in Win98 / NT4 / 2000 so its fairly obviously MSIE5 rather than the operating system) ... but with the BSD gateway running permanently I can fix MSIE5 by simply re-booting the offending gateway box. Another nasty trick all MSIE's play is the dreaded memory leak .... particularly if they've been running for a few days continuously .... again the fixes tha twork for me are to shut that service down and re-start (NT) or re-boot (Win9x) ----- Original Message ----- From: Bruce Piper To: Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 1999 1:10 AM Subject: Network problem... > Hi there > I'm using a FreeBSD box (version 2.2.8-RELEASE (GENERIC)) as a router from our office (win98 workstations) to an ISP dedicated modem. > The FreeBSD box and all the workstations have their own IP addresses. >The FreeBSD box has an internal modem (com 3) which is connected using >user-ppp (ppp -auto demand) to the ISP modem, and allows everyone in the >office to surf etc. It's setup so it doesn't time out. I'm also in the process of >setting it up as a web server, mail server etc. However, I'm finding that >every now and then (?a couple of times a day) it stops communicating. The >debugging I've done so far is as follows: I've got a pppctl server running, >so by doing set log local async I can verify that I am definitely sending stuff >out the lin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message