From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 31 6:14: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.mediaone.net [24.147.184.128]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2D1637B422 for ; Thu, 31 May 2001 06:14:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lowell@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f4VDE3j89142; Thu, 31 May 2001 09:14:03 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from lowell) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [freebsd-questions] Forgetful Computer?? References: <20010530130023.15330.qmail@web3101.mail.yahoo.com> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 31 May 2001 09:14:03 -0400 In-Reply-To: gavinkenny@yahoo.co.uk's message of "30 May 2001 15:00:33 +0200" Message-ID: <443d9lhd9g.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> Lines: 26 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.7 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 gavinkenny@yahoo.co.uk (Gavin Kenny) writes: > 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? Almost certainly *not* a hardware problem. If I had to guess, I'd assume you have something confused in your addressing... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message