From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 30 6: 0:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web3101.mail.yahoo.com (web3101.mail.yahoo.com [216.115.110.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 06F4637B423 for ; Wed, 30 May 2001 06:00:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gavinkenny@yahoo.co.uk) Message-ID: <20010530130023.15330.qmail@web3101.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [193.123.204.66] by web3101.mail.yahoo.com; Wed, 30 May 2001 14:00:23 BST Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 14:00:23 +0100 (BST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Gavin=20Kenny?= Subject: Forgetful Computer?? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 Greetings, I am having trouble with a FreeBSD 4.1 machine that seems to randonmly lose its routing information. The network runs fine for a while and then suddenly stops. The console on the machine reports: /kernel arplookup 147.223.30.2 failed: host is not on local network It is right, that host is the other ride of a router. However if I go to that host and ping back, suddenly everything bursts back into life and works fine until it suddenly stop x minutes later and the process repeats. Any ideas why? Could it be a dodgy NIC or something? Any way to find out without taking the machine out of service? many thanks Gavin ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message