Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2003 13:17:47 -0500 (EST) From: "J. Seth Henry" <jshamlet@comcast.net> To: Toomas Aas <toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SSH failing randomly in 4.7-REL (SOLVED) Message-ID: <20030404124942.V80922-100000@whitetower.gambrl01.md.comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <200304041734.h34HYGH05725@lv.raad.tartu.ee>
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It turned out to be a problem with dhclient. It wanted to write to /etc/resolv.conf which was on a read-only file system at the time. Eventually, it crashed out - perhaps trashing the interface configuration on its way down. I moved resolv.conf to /usr/local/etc and symlinked it in /etc - and the problem appears to be resolved. I haven't seen any other strange network related problems since. Thanks, Seth Henry BTW - the Linksys USB100TX uses the aue driver. Thanks, Seth Henry On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Toomas Aas wrote: > Hi! > > > All of these machines have identical hardware. They use Linksys USB100TX > > USB network interfaces, and are on a 100Mb ethernet segment. The machines > > themselves are AMD K6-2+ systems, with 32Mb of RAM. The boot volume is a > > 16Mb sandisk, and they mount everything but /etc, /dev, and /boot from a > > microdrive. > > I don't have any experience at all with USB Ethernet devices or DHCP so I > apologize in advance if my comments are totally irrelevant. > > What driver are these Linksys devices using? Is it dc? I've seen a lot > of messages in the list about some problem with Linksys NICs using dc > driver, where the MAC address is incorrectly set as 08:00:08:00:08:00. > If there are multiple devices with identical MAC addresses on the same wire, > then there can certainly be strange networking issues. > > Another thing that can cause the "host is not on local network" message > might be an incorrectly set netmask. > > ifconfig output from some of these machines would be interesting. > -- > Toomas Aas | toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ > * User Error: Replace user. > >
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