From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 22 03:42:25 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5FF516A400 for ; Mon, 22 Jan 2007 03:42:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ceo@l-i-e.com) Received: from o2.hostbaby.com (o2.hostbaby.com [67.139.134.202]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 97D5A13C457 for ; Mon, 22 Jan 2007 03:42:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ceo@l-i-e.com) Received: (qmail 10647 invoked by uid 98); 22 Jan 2007 03:15:47 -0000 Received: from 127.0.0.1 by o2.hostbaby.com (envelope-from , uid 1013) with qmail-scanner-1.25 (clamdscan: 0.88.7/2474. Clear:RC:1(127.0.0.1):. Processed in 0.072693 secs); 22 Jan 2007 03:15:47 -0000 X-Qmail-Scanner-Mail-From: ceo@l-i-e.com via o2.hostbaby.com X-Qmail-Scanner: 1.25 (Clear:RC:1(127.0.0.1):. Processed in 0.072693 secs) Received: from localhost (HELO www.l-i-e.com) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 22 Jan 2007 03:15:47 -0000 Received: from 209.254.223.2 (SquirrelMail authenticated user ceo@l-i-e.com) by www.l-i-e.com with HTTP; Sun, 21 Jan 2007 21:15:47 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <62460.209.254.223.2.1169435747.squirrel@www.l-i-e.com> In-Reply-To: <037FAB79-B890-46CE-9522-E0A7EE58661F@tca-cable-connector.com> References: <037FAB79-B890-46CE-9522-E0A7EE58661F@tca-cable-connector.com> Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 21:15:47 -0600 (CST) From: "Richard Lynch" To: "David Schulz" User-Agent: Hostbaby Webmail MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Loosing Ethernet Connectivity X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: ceo@l-i-e.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 03:42:25 -0000 Sounds like flaky/cheap network card to me... [But I'm no expert] Perhaps, however, just doing a cron job every day to do the ifconfig down/up would be a simple work-around. On Sun, January 21, 2007 9:12 pm, David Schulz wrote: > Hello all, > > every once in a while i have a machine (6.1) that out of the blue, > sometimes after days, some after 6 months, looses Ethernet > Connectivity. My Machines just run some Service, and have no > Keyboard / Mouse or Monitor. When the Machine goes down, eg, i am > unable to ping it from another Machine on the Network, even > restarting the machine using "reboot" will not fix the Problem. The > only way to fix it is to login as root, and issue a "ifconfig vr0 > down && ifconfig vr0 up". Then a dmesg Message appears : "vr0: Using > force reset command.", and after that i can successfully ping the > machine again. I have had this Problem on different machines with > different Network Cards, on different Ethernet Cables, and with > FreeBSD Versions 5.5 until 6.1. > > Can anyone please help me to understand and possibly even fix this > Problem? > > Thanks a lot, > David > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some starving artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So?