Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 00:19:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Dima Dorfman <dima@apc.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mount root partition and Network Problems Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980419001811.6766S-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980417184123.009543a0@mail.apc.net>
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On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, Dima Dorfman wrote:
> 2) I'm having problems with me network. It started after I built a new
> kernel. I can connect to the machine, but it will never respond. Example:
> I telnet into my POP3 server and it will connect, but will never come up
> with the welcome message ("QPOP 2.4 starting....."). Another example: I
> telnet into the machine, and it just sits there, connected, with no login
> prompt. The wiredest part, is that my DNS and ICMP(ping) work fine. I
> doubt it's a firewall misconfiguration because it connects. There is
> nothing on the console, or in any log files. At first, I thought it was
> the new kernel, but I proved myself wrong, because my previous working
> kernel (which my night maintainence script copies to kernel.WORKING :-) and
> the generic kernel do the same thing. Any suggestions?
Check your reverse lookup from the machine you were connecting from --
it'll wait a while waiting for the reverse DNS lookup to fail. Also check
that your Ethernet card will send multiple packets. Sending one packet at
a time is a sure sign of a IRQ misconfiguration.
Doug White | University of Oregon
Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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