From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 28 8:11:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from boombox.zaphods.net (dusdi4-145-253-116-124.arcor-ip.net [145.253.116.124]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E54BF37B8BC for ; Mon, 28 Feb 2000 08:11:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from yippie@x-berg.in-berlin.de) Received: from localhost (yippie@localhost.zaphods.net [127.0.0.1]) by boombox.zaphods.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA06398; Mon, 28 Feb 2000 17:11:14 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from yippie@x-berg.in-berlin.de) Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 17:11:14 +0100 (CET) From: Stefan Schmidt X-Sender: yippie@boombox.zaphods.net To: "Dave J. Boers" Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Machine is 'hanging'. In-Reply-To: <20000228114145.A10302@relativity.student.utwente.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Dave J. Boers wrote: > It is rumoured that Stefan Schmidt had the courage to say: > > i have got a problem with a router running FreeBSD 3.4-REL: > > Every three days or so it hangs, whiche means that the console is not > > responding any more, open tcp ports don't respond == are timing-out just > > like they're filtered. I guess the machine is just unable to start a > > shell. Oh and well it is appearently able to route as the machines behind > > it are reachable, and it does repond to pings. > Are you by any chance running SMP? I am having very similar problems with > -current (time to die is approx 10 days) on a box which does firewalling > and nat. erm, no not really , it is a 486 dunno how fast actually but somewhere over 100Mhz with PCI-Bus, two NICs on the PCI and one 10mbit card on the ISA-Bus for outgoing traffic. It does some firewalling, stealth-forwarding and softupdates. > And by the way, I do have DDB in my kernel, but the hang is really hard. > The box just freezes and there's no way to get to the debugger. Even serial > console is dead. dito, i mean i didn't compile DDB into the kernel but all consoles are dead. Stefan Schmidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message