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Date:      Mon, 13 Mar 2000 11:42:33 -0800
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Jon Drukman <jsd@gamespot.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: machine vanishes from network
Message-ID:  <20000313114233.A14279@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20000313102624.00a4f340@hudsucker.gamespot.com>; from jsd@gamespot.com on Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 10:28:56AM -0800
References:  <4.2.2.20000313102624.00a4f340@hudsucker.gamespot.com>

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* Jon Drukman <jsd@gamespot.com> [000313 11:13] wrote:
> I have a machine running FreeBSD 3.4.  It continually "disappears" from the 
> network - I can't ping it from the outside world.  However, if I log on to 
> its console and ping outwards, it suddenly reappears!  I wrote a cronjob 
> that sends a ping out every 10 minutes.  Gross hack, but it seems to work!
> 
> I'm not even sure this is related to the OS honestly, but I don't know 
> where else to start.
> 
> Any clues?

Upgrade to 3-stable, see: http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/cutting-edge.html
there are some known issues with a couple of ethernet drivers around
the 3.4 release, but since I don't know what card you have it's hard
to say what the exact problem may be.

-Alfred


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