Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 10:36:30 -0500 From: Don Bowman <don@sandvine.com> To: 'alexis georges' <floating_in_space_@hotmail.com>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.org Subject: RE: dhclient turns ethernet card off Message-ID: <FE045D4D9F7AED4CBFF1B3B813C8533701022E56@mail.sandvine.com>
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> From: alexis georges [mailto:floating_in_space_@hotmail.com] > hey guys > we had a power cut yesterday..all went down at our home.. > when we got electricity back, my internet wouldnot work..only > my computer > atually..i found that my eth. card would not turn on..or > actually i just > foung out now..it does turn on until it get to the 'dhclient > dc0' lne in > rc.conf..which i need..basically during boot up it turns > on..and when it has > t exectute the dchlient line, the light on the card > disapears..its weird.i > have a linksys (LNE TX?) > anyways the way i have to have my card going is by having > start_if.dc0 with > a line that turns my card to half-duplex (it needs to be like > this) and then > in the rc.conf i have the ifconfig_dc0="DHCP" > anyone knoe what could cause my card to literally shut down > on dhclient? > i already tried just in case to change PCI slots, but nothing > changed.. > thanks in advance some routers disable ports if they see too many errors, e.g. due to a duplex mismatch. Is your router set to auto? and the NIC is as well? --don (don@sandvine.com www.sandvine.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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