Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 22:35:42 -0400 (EDT) From: thursday@altavista.net To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: networking weirdness Message-ID: <000510223542IX.25283@weba6.iname.net>
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Hi, I have a PentiumII running FreeBSD 4.0 with a 3Com nic installed. It ran fine with 20 days of uptime, when suddenly the machine was not available on the network any longer. Then a few hours later it was pingable again, then, later it wasn't. Regardless of whether the I could ping other machines from this one, I was always able to ping 127.0.0.1 and 192.168.1.4, its own IP address (one of our sysadmins at work suggested I try this). I've tried swapping out the cables, power-cycling the machine, and the hub, all to no avail. Then, the next day, I again swapped the cable, power-cycled the machine, and *viola*, I can ping other machines on the internal network, but no machines outside...until a little later, when all was back to normal. Since I hadn't done anything to the machine's configuration, I'm assuming that this is simply a bad NIC, but...before I replace it or spend time swapping a NIC out of another machine & testing that hypothesis (time is a little more scarce than money right now), I thought I'd ask some people with more networking experience than I have... So, what do you think? Bad NIC or some buggy problem with ifcongig or the drivers or something?? Thanks! ---------------------------------------------------------------- Get your free email from AltaVista at http://altavista.iname.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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