From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 28 9:17:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from atari.saturn5.com (atari.saturn5.com [209.133.22.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9BE737B41A for ; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 09:17:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (davek@localhost) by atari.saturn5.com (8.9.3/8.8.4) with ESMTP id JAA23420; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 09:17:41 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: atari.saturn5.com: davek owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 09:17:41 -0800 (PST) From: Dave Kayal X-X-Sender: To: ScaryG Cc: Subject: Re: network woes... In-Reply-To: <20020228121612.2a41c936.freymann@scaryg.shacknet.nu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Actually, I did change the brand of NIC. I was using intel's now I am using a 3com. =/ On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, ScaryG wrote: > On Thu, 28 Feb 2002 08:45:10 -0800 (PST) > Dave Kayal 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