Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 17:30:42 -0500 (EST) From: Stephen Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net> To: Steven Lake <raiden@shell.core.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Strange networking problems Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10202191730310.15487-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44L0.0202191617250.5264-100000@shell.core.com>
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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
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