From owner-freebsd-net Tue Sep 22 09:04:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA28543 for freebsd-net-outgoing; Tue, 22 Sep 1998 09:04:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bells.cs.ucl.ac.uk (bells.cs.ucl.ac.uk [128.16.5.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA28457 for ; Tue, 22 Sep 1998 09:04:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from P.Gevros@cs.ucl.ac.uk) Received: from sporty.cs.ucl.ac.uk by bells.cs.ucl.ac.uk with local SMTP id ; Tue, 22 Sep 1998 17:03:07 +0100 X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.6 3/24/96 To: Luigi Rizzo cc: P.Gevros@cs.ucl.ac.uk, net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: network problem? In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 22 Sep 1998 15:45:40 +0200." <199809221345.PAA04554@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 17:03:02 +0100 Message-ID: <1196.906480182@cs.ucl.ac.uk> From: Panos GEVROS Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Luigi, it is not a laptop, it is a PC, can this still be the case ? on what grounds it affects one machine and not another when it is on the same port -i tried moving it to another port and the behavior was the same, however the other machine (freebsd with same NIC) works fine in either port my latest finding : telnet/pings to it still freeze even when i kept a ping running from its console, stopping it and restarting and everything resumed.. Panos In message <199809221345.PAA04554@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>, Luigi Rizzo writes: |> i have a machine running freebsd which occasionally disappears from the |> network (i.e cannot ping, telnet hangs ..) if i log in from console and "ki *ck" |> it's ethernet interface (ed0) by pinging something or even tcpdump on the |> interface and all connections/pings resume util the next time (after a coup *le |> hundred pings) |> |> i have tried the following: |> cabling (used its ethernet cable with other machine -ok) |> booting it from different slices/ with different kernels in each slice |> (2.2.[67]) |> changed the card itself with a known to work one |> checked whether the machine was suspended (apm) -no | |is this a laptop by chance ? the card might power off without you |knowing, the hub it is attached to might see it offline and disable the |card itself until it goes up again. |if you can try the same card on a bnc ethernet it might work just fine. | | luigi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message