From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 13 11:10:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5888A37C353 for ; Mon, 13 Mar 2000 11:10:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA28254; Mon, 13 Mar 2000 11:42:33 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 11:42:33 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Jon Drukman Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: machine vanishes from network Message-ID: <20000313114233.A14279@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <4.2.2.20000313102624.00a4f340@hudsucker.gamespot.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i 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 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Jon Drukman [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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message