From owner-freebsd-questions  Thu Feb 28  9:14:57 2002
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: from tomts8-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts8.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.52])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3232537B402
	for <questions@freebsd.org>; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 09:14:53 -0800 (PST)
Received: from scaryg.shacknet.nu ([64.231.135.247])
          by tomts8-srv.bellnexxia.net
          (InterMail vM.4.01.03.23 201-229-121-123-20010418) with ESMTP
          id <20020228171452.WABZ2871.tomts8-srv.bellnexxia.net@scaryg.shacknet.nu>;
          Thu, 28 Feb 2002 12:14:52 -0500
Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=scaryg.shacknet.nu)
	by scaryg.shacknet.nu with smtp (Exim 3.34 #1)
	id 16gUA8-000PHp-00; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 12:16:12 -0500
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 12:16:12 -0500
From: ScaryG <freymann@scaryg.shacknet.nu>
To: Dave Kayal <davek@yayproductions.com>
Cc: questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: network woes...
Message-Id: <20020228121612.2a41c936.freymann@scaryg.shacknet.nu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.33.0202280837530.19711-100000@atari>
References: <Pine.GSO.4.33.0202280837530.19711-100000@atari>
X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.2 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.4)
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-MailScanner: Found to be clean
Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
List-ID: <freebsd-questions.FreeBSD.ORG>
List-Archive: <http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/> (Web Archive)
List-Help: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=help> (List Instructions)
List-Subscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=subscribe%20freebsd-questions>
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=unsubscribe%20freebsd-questions>
X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG

On Thu, 28 Feb 2002 08:45:10 -0800 (PST)
Dave Kayal <davek@yayproductions.com> wrote:

> HELP!  My system seems to be incredibly unstable.  I am usinging it as a
> gateway/router (running natd and ipfw). 
> i've tried switching network cards incase it was a hardware problem,
> but to no avail. i'm at a loss of what to do at this point.

 When you switched Network Cards, did it also use the xl driver?

 I would change to a different network card that also uses a different
driver (that isn't xl)

 I've had this problem as well. Changing brands of NIC's solved the
watchdog timeout problems.

Gerry
Web-Domain Hosting / DNS Services
at http://www.interpool.ca

To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message