From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 4 1: 7: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mip.co.za (puck.mip.co.za [209.212.106.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 982FA37B403 for ; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 01:06:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from patrick (patrick.mip.co.za [10.3.13.181]) by mip.co.za (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA89610 for ; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 10:07:01 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from patrick@mip.co.za) From: "Patrick O'Reilly" To: "FreeBSD Question List" Subject: Error on network interface (Cyclades pc300) Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 10:09:45 +0200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal 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 Hi all. I have found the following message (/var/log/messages), following which the interface goes down and stays down till I bounce the box. I'm not sure whether it is a problem common to FreeBSD, or specific to the hardware and its driver, so I decided to start with the guys who generally seem to come up with real answers :) /var/log/messages snip -->> Oct 3 22:15:11 chico /kernel: hdlc0: lcp: ignoring RXJ (proto-rej) for proto 0x8021, danger will robinson Oct 3 22:15:17 chico last message repeated 2 times Oct 3 22:15:44 chico /kernel: hdlc0: Down event, taking interface down. Oct 3 22:15:48 chico /kernel: hdlc0: lcp illegal conf-req in state initial <<-- end of snip Anyway, after this the last message (lcp illegal...) continues to repeat ad-infinitum at about a 5 second interval - I presume that is as the interface continually attempts to get up again. It is interesting to note that the interface card has two ports, both of which are active, but this error has only ever occurred on 'hdlc0'. The second port ('hdlc1') is a clean as a whistle. FYI: bash-2.04# uname -a FreeBSD chico.xxx.com 4.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE #0: Thu Jun 28 21:42:32 SAST 2001 root@:/usr/src/sys/compile/chico i386 (This reminds me - it's time to update this box!) bash-2.04# ifconfig hdlc0 hdlc0: flags=8051 mtu 1500 inet x.y.z.1 --> x.y.z.2 netmask 0xfffffffc The above confirms that the interface is running PPP, not HDLC, despite the name. And the far end of the line (at the ISP) has Cisco kit to the best of my knowledge. Looking forward to hearing from you! Regards, Patrick O'Reilly. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message