From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 28 18:19:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA25931 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 28 Nov 1997 18:19:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from fly.HiWAAY.net (root@fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA25924 for ; Fri, 28 Nov 1997 18:19:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt2-180.HiWAAY.net [208.147.148.180]) by fly.HiWAAY.net (8.8.7/8.8.6) with ESMTP id UAA00270; Fri, 28 Nov 1997 20:19:34 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.8.8/8.8.4) with ESMTP id SAA25263; Fri, 28 Nov 1997 18:53:38 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199711290053.SAA25263@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: 026809r@dragon.acadiau.ca (Michael Richards) cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: Weird Network screwups In-reply-to: Message from 026809r@dragon.acadiau.ca (Michael Richards) of "Fri, 28 Nov 1997 14:00:18 -0400." <199711281800.OAA21467@dragon.acadiau.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 18:53:38 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Hi! > We have a server that has run without incident Since September. All of a > sudden the network seems to die randomly. > > Nov 26 19:44:13 scifair /kernel: de0: enabling AUI port > That seems to be the only clue. However the 3com network card in it has not > been changed and it worked correctly before. No users were logged in at the > time... Does anyone have 1/2 a clue where to start with this one? For starters, I didn't know 3com made a de0-compatible card. Do you really have a DEC-21x4x based ethernet card on your system? If not then something is confusing the kernel into believing you do. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.