From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 29 12:00:21 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA26685 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 29 Jan 1996 12:00:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from zebu.serv.net (zebu.serv.net [199.201.191.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA26647 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 1996 12:00:14 -0800 (PST) Received: by zebu.serv.net (5.65+UW94.7/UW-NDC Revision: 2.30 ) id AA24777; Mon, 29 Jan 96 11:57:32 -0800 Date: Mon, 29 Jan 96 11:57:32 -0800 From: "Sean T. Lamont" Message-Id: <9601291957.AA24777@zebu.serv.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Hints on network dropping Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hi there. I have been experiencing problems with a FreeBSD system dropping its network connection entirely. It's a fairly high trafficked httpd server, and that's about it. It's an ASUS P133 motherboard with an NE2000 clone network card and an IDE disk system. What happens is, for about 10 minutes at a time (at least once per day) the network will drop entirely ; the site isn't ping'able, no logging occurs on the http server. In about 10 minutes, it comes up and runs fine. I'm at somewhat of a loss here since I have an identical kernel running on our news server, which has some extended resources like processes. It almost sounds like a driver problem, but as I said, the NE2000 clone is working fine for us on the other server. Any hints for me before I consider swapping out OS's?