From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 19 14:30:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC97037B400 for ; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 14:30:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from buffnet11.buffnet.net (buffnet11.buffnet.net [205.246.19.55]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA87619; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 18:00:26 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from shovey@buffnet.net) Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 17:30:42 -0500 (EST) From: Stephen Hovey To: Steven Lake Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Strange networking problems In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG you sure your DNS is all ok? On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Steven Lake wrote: > HI all. This probubly sounds like a newbie question, but I was > working with one of our servers that just went down this afternoon and > it's got me baffled. It's not generating any error or failure messages, > yet it won't initialize the network correctly. When you try to telnet > into sendmail or ssh from localhost the daemons jump right to life, but > you try to come across the network and the daemons laugh histerically at > you (figuratively speaking) and take forever to connect. > > I've tried reinstalling to no avail. Same problem after the > install as before the install. The daemons are very, very > slow starting on bootup, but you remove the nic cable and they start up > faster, but not like normal, however it fails on hostname setup. Remove > the nic entirely and everything fires up and plays happily like nothing > was wrong. I've tried 3 different nic cards in it and 2 do the same thing > and the 3rd refuses to be seen. Any ideas?? > > Two of the cards are kingston kne120tx 10/100tx cards. The third > is a Linksys EtherPCI lan card 2, all are PCI. Thing is this box was > doing awesome right up until yesterday when it started acting up. Today > it totally refuses to move data at more than a snails pace out of the nic > card. I've also moved the HD to another identical system and got the same > result. Same cards mind you, but identical system, same type of hardware. > (the backup system didn't have a lan card of its own so I snagged one of > the cards in question) > > Same result. So I'm curious where the problem might be lying. > The rc.conf file is fine. If I disable the nic card in the rc.conf file > then the system plays happy as if no nic existed. So my only thought is > it has to do something with the nic. Sorry for being so long winded, but > I wanted to lay out exactly what I've done so far to troubleshoot this. > > Your help will be greatly apreciated. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message