From owner-freebsd-net Tue Sep 22 06:38:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA02739 for freebsd-net-outgoing; Tue, 22 Sep 1998 06:38:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bells.cs.ucl.ac.uk (bells.cs.ucl.ac.uk [128.16.5.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id GAA02695 for ; Tue, 22 Sep 1998 06:37:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from P.Gevros@cs.ucl.ac.uk) Received: from sporty.cs.ucl.ac.uk by bells.cs.ucl.ac.uk with local SMTP id ; Tue, 22 Sep 1998 14:37:19 +0100 X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.6 3/24/96 To: net@FreeBSD.ORG cc: P.Gevros@cs.ucl.ac.uk X-Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, University College London X-Phone: +44 (0)171 419 3666 X-URL: http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/P.Gevros/ Subject: network problem? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 14:37:16 +0100 Message-ID: <944.906471436@cs.ucl.ac.uk> From: Panos GEVROS Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org this troubles me for sometime and i was wondering whether other people have seen this before: i have a machine running freebsd which occasionally disappears from the network (i.e cannot ping, telnet hangs ..) if i log in from console and "kick" it's ethernet interface (ed0) by pinging something or even tcpdump on the interface and all connections/pings resume util the next time (after a couple hundred pings) i have tried the following: cabling (used its ethernet cable with other machine -ok) booting it from different slices/ with different kernels in each slice (2.2.[67]) changed the card itself with a known to work one checked whether the machine was suspended (apm) -no but the symptoms are the same any ideas? Thanks in advance, Panos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message