Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 22:10:52 -0500 From: Brendan McAlpine <bmcalpine@macconnect.com> To: <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: HELP!! problem with new bsd mail server Message-ID: <B8B821EC.B5F4%bmcalpine@macconnect.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Hello I have a very weird problem going on with my new BSD qmail server. The machine has two ethernet cards, running FreeBSD 4.4. I think I set up the ethernet configuration incorrectly, or my machine is seriously broken. Here is what happens. The machine runs without problems for long stretches of time. Then, all of a sudden, it goes deaf to network connections. It seems to be some sort of conflict or something. The machine canšt ping the switch its connected to. Tonight, the machine resorts to this behavior immediately after startup. Every once in a while I canšt get 3 or 4 pings through to it. Išve deleted the ip address configuration I set up on the ethernet interfaces. Could someone direct me to the best way to configure these cards? Should I use ifconfig or just edit the rc.conf file, or both? Also, how should I set up the cards? One interface down? OR can I give them both the same IP for redundancy. Lastly, would this even be the root of the problem, or would some sort of hardware problem do this? Thanks Brendan Ps. Išve already tried switching ports on the switch, moving the machine to a new switch, and switching the ethernet cable. The problem lies on the machine. [-- Attachment #2 --] <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>HELP!! problem with new bsd mail server</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <FONT FACE="Verdana">Hello<BR> <BR> I have a very weird problem going on with my new BSD qmail server.<BR> <BR> The machine has two ethernet cards, running FreeBSD 4.4. I think I set up the ethernet configuration incorrectly, or my machine is seriously broken.<BR> <BR> Here is what happens. The machine runs without problems for long stretches of time. Then, all of a sudden, it goes deaf to network connections. It seems to be some sort of conflict or something. The machine can’t ping the switch its connected to. <BR> <BR> Tonight, the machine resorts to this behavior immediately after startup. Every once in a while I can’t get 3 or 4 pings through to it.<BR> <BR> I’ve deleted the ip address configuration I set up on the ethernet interfaces. <BR> <BR> Could someone direct me to the best way to configure these cards? Should I use ifconfig or just edit the rc.conf file, or both? Also, how should I set up the cards? One interface down? OR can I give them both the same IP for redundancy.<BR> <BR> Lastly, would this even be the root of the problem, or would some sort of hardware problem do this?<BR> <BR> Thanks<BR> <BR> Brendan<BR> <BR> Ps. I’ve already tried switching ports on the switch, moving the machine to a new switch, and switching the ethernet cable. The problem lies on the machine.</FONT> </BODY> </HTML>help
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