From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 9 18:59:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA29120 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 9 May 1998 18:59:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from implode.root.com (implode.root.com [198.145.90.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA29114 for ; Sat, 9 May 1998 18:59:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@implode.root.com) Received: from implode.root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by implode.root.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA12651; Sat, 9 May 1998 18:57:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199805100157.SAA12651@implode.root.com> To: "J. C." cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: connection to the network was lost In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 09 May 1998 10:09:45 +0800." <3553BAE8.2C52FAF8@webquest.com> From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Sat, 09 May 1998 18:57:03 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >hello...I'm having problems with my FreeBSD ....I'm running version >2.2.2 on a dual ethernet machine with TIS toolkit....my ISA ehternet >card is connected to the internet while the other one, an on-board >ethernet is inside the firewall. the on-board was detected as fxp0 >, uses irq 10 on pci0:0..the >problem is...the on-board ethernet looses its connection to the network >a couple of times everyday....it can't ping the machines on its network >but it can ping itself.....to get it working again ....I have to reboot >it...is ther a permanent solution for this...thanks You might try upgrading to 2.2.6. There is a hardware bug that the chip on the Intel card has where the receiver will hang if it gets certain types of garbage, especially when operating in 10Mbps more. There is a work-around in the newer versions of the fxp driver that is believed to fix this. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message