From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Nov 4 17:37:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 289061561B for ; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 17:37:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA18499; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 17:36:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 17:36:28 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White To: Wayne M Barnes Cc: FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: ethernet hard or soft failure In-Reply-To: <199911011728.LAA53029@klentaq.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Wayne M Barnes wrote: > Dear FreeBSDers, > > Is the following recurrent failure a hardware or software failure? > > My 3.3 system loses its internet connection often, but only in > the past 3 weeks. Before that this did not happen for years. Has someone made a change to your Ethernet network wiring? Someone may have spliced/installed equipment/etc that is confusing the autodetection hardware on your card. > ping: sendto: No buffer space available > ping: sendto: No buffer space available > ping: sendto: No buffer space available Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message