From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 5 16:16:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.austclear.com.au (ns1.austclear.com.au [192.43.185.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96AF437B407 for ; Thu, 5 Jul 2001 16:16:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ahl@austclear.com.au) Received: from tungsten.austclear.com.au (tungsten.austclear.com.au [192.168.70.1]) by ns1.austclear.com.au (8.11.2/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f65NG6e79340; Fri, 6 Jul 2001 09:16:06 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from ahl@austclear.com.au) Received: from tungsten (tungsten [192.168.70.1]) by tungsten.austclear.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA01518; Fri, 6 Jul 2001 09:16:06 +1000 (EST) Message-Id: <200107052316.JAA01518@tungsten.austclear.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: dave@hawk-systems.com (Dave) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NIC suffering intermittant connection problems In-Reply-To: Message from dave@hawk-systems.com (Dave) of "Thu, 05 Jul 2001 19:12:24 -0400." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2001 09:16:06 +1000 From: Tony Landells 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 Is DNS working properly on the machine? Running "netstat -r" requires name resolution for all the entries (which is why I tend to run "netstat -rn"). Perhaps most of the problems are to do with name resolution, and running "netstat -r" refills the cache, or something stupid. We've been running a fair number of Intel Pro in our firewalls for quite a while. There was one occasion over a year ago where one port of a dual-port card appeared to have gone to sleep and wouldn't wake up (until we rebooted) on FreeBSD 3.2, but apart from that they've been very good. Of course all manufacturing processes are subject to random variation--you may just be "lucky". Tony -- Tony Landells Senior Network Engineer Ph: +61 3 9677 9319 Australian Clearing Services Pty Ltd Fax: +61 3 9677 9355 Level 4, Rialto North Tower 525 Collins Street Melbourne VIC 3000 Australia To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message