From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 17 20:01:49 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7289B16A4CE for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 20:01:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A38E43D39 for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 20:01:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E9C15D49; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 15:01:48 -0500 (EST) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 58475-07; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 15:01:47 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-161-50-112.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.50.112]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78FD65CAC; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 15:01:47 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4214F80D.1070302@mac.com> Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 15:01:17 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: MacConnect Home Office References: <8a838da97735c53d7133bd59670daeaa@macconnect.com> In-Reply-To: <8a838da97735c53d7133bd59670daeaa@macconnect.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: machine goes deaf to network connections - please help X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 20:01:49 -0000 MacConnect Home Office wrote: > I have a strange problem on my hands. I have a mail server running > qmail and vpopmail, and FreeBSD 4.2. The machine does decent volume. > Periodically the machine will just go deaf to network connections for 15 > - 20 minutes at a time. When this happens, both the link light on the > machine and the link light on the switch go amber. I've tried to > troubleshoot this from every angle. I've checked the settings on the > switch (they're fine). In fact, when this problem happens, the switch > isn't reporting any errors on the port. I've swapped ethernet cables, > put the machine on another switch, and swapped ethernet cards, all to no > avail. I don't suppose the system is going into power-saving made, by any chance? BTW, if you do indeed have 4.2, you are a few years out of date and ought to upgrade to 4.11. -- -Chuck