From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 9 17: 0:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wilsonandhorton.co.nz (fw2.wilsonandhorton.co.nz [203.99.66.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FF2237B5FF for ; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 17:00:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@itouch.co.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by wilsonandhorton.co.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA01456; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 11:59:54 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 11:59:54 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: Jordan Krushen Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem with /30 on 4.1-R Message-ID: <20000810115954.C718@jonc.ntdns.wilsonandhorton.co.n> References: <001201c0024f$80db46e0$eae8b8a1@123> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <001201c0024f$80db46e0$eae8b8a1@123>; from jkrushen@purplemedia.com on Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 04:16:44PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 04:16:44PM -0600, Jordan Krushen wrote: > I have a 4.1-R (cvsup'd every now and then) machine which has no end of > problems staying connected to a switch on the other side of a /30. I've > tried Intel cards, 3Com cards, and Dlink cards, all give the same problem - > The connection will come up fine on boot, then after a while, just give up > the ghost. All other interfaces in the machine keep working fine. What's > also odd is that from time to time, if I ping that interface from outside, > I'll get one ping reply back, then the interface dies, I get no replies > back, and it has to be power cycled to get it back up. ifconfig down/up > doesn't do a thing to restore it. The segment we're on is 206.87.4.224/30. Don't depend on the card's autoselect to select the connection speed. Use ifconfig's media selection to forcibly set it to what you expect it to be. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "Nyuck, nyuck, nyuck" - Curly To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message