From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 28 10:12:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from raiden.jasnetworks.net (raiden.jasnetworks.net [65.194.248.251]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C815937B400 for ; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 10:12:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from works ([192.168.0.2]) by raiden.jasnetworks.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g1SI8Yb00161; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:08:34 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from raiden23@netzero.net) Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.20020228131057.009bfba0@pop.netzero.net> X-Sender: raiden23@pop.netzero.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:13:01 -0500 To: ScaryG , Dave Kayal From: Lord Raiden Subject: Re: network woes... Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20020228121612.2a41c936.freymann@scaryg.shacknet.nu> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed 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 I'm also having an identical issue with another card I'm running. They all use the rl driver (kingston, lynksys) so I'm going to be trying 3com. I've never heard of any issues with those. Let's hope so anyways. At 12:16 PM 2/28/02 -0500, 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message