From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 16 08:22:53 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id IAA12146 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 16 Mar 1995 08:22:53 -0800 Received: from gaudi.diatel.upm.es (gaudi.diatel.upm.es [138.100.49.10]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id IAA12130 for ; Thu, 16 Mar 1995 08:21:44 -0800 Received: by gaudi.diatel.upm.es (4.1/SMI-4.1) Thu, 16 Mar 95 17:19:42 +0100 X400-Received: by mta diatel.upm in /PRMD=/ADMD=/C=/; Relayed; Thu, 16 Mar 1995 17:19:39 UTC+0100 X400-Received: by /PRMD=iris/ADMD=mensatex/C=es/; Relayed; Thu, 16 Mar 1995 17:19:39 UTC+0100 Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1995 17:19:39 UTC+0100 X400-Originator: jmrueda@diatel.upm.es X400-Recipients: non-disclosure:; X400-Content-Type: P2-1984 (2) X400-Mts-Identifier: [/PRMD=iris/ADMD=mensatex/C=es/;950316171939] Content-Identifier: 634 From: Javier Martin Rueda To: questions@FreeBSD.org Message-Id: <634*/S=jmrueda/OU=diatel/O=upm/PRMD=iris/ADMD=mensatex/C=es/@MHS> Subject: Network connection halts for a while, then resumes (2.0R) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Generated by Ean X.400 to MIME gateway) Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi. I'm trying to setup a computer that will act as a file server under FreeBSD. The main details of the hardware configuration are: Motherboard: 486DX2-66 PCI+VESA, Opti chipset PCI SCSI adapter: Buslogic Bt946C SCSI disk: Conner CFP1060S PCI Ethernet card: SMC EtherPower 8432BT DSP 550: serial card with two 16550A ports. Originally, I planned to install FreeBSD 1.1.5.1, but I found that the network card was not supported in that release. So, I went with 2.0R. At the moment, the computer is in the first stages of testing. I'm the only user, using it from the console, but making some network connections too. I'm using a customized kernel that only has my hardware equipment, with ktracing activated, no SysV sems, shared memory, etc. To resolve host names, I use YP, served by SunOS 4.1.1. My problem is that, suddenly, the network ceases to work for about 5-10 minutes. After that time, it begins to work again. This may happen when the system has been up for just 10 minutes, or when it's been up for an hour. It happens again after a while, and so on. I may be telnetting, or maybe ftping. I haven't been able to find a clearly repeatable pattern. By the way, I don't think that it is a problem of cables or connections. When the network is "dead", if I try to ping some host on the network, after waiting for a while I get responses such as this (and the other system does not answer a single time, of course): yp_match: clnt_call: RPC: Timed out clnttcp_create: RPC: Port mapper failure - RPC: Unable to send Or if I execute "arp -a", or "netstat -r", the command halts and I don't get any answer (at least, until I get tired and interrupt it). Another thing that sometimes happens and is probably related with this, is that when the system is booting, the initial ifconfig command sometimes takes longer than usual to run, and also one of the network daemons does the same thing (maybe inetd, I don't remember now). Sometimes I even have to hit Ctrl-C once or twice after a minute or so waiting, so that the boot sequence can continue. Does anybody have any idea of what can be going on? Has anybody experienced similar problems? I'll try switching the cards from slot and things like that, but any help or suggestion is welcome. Thank you for reading this :-)