Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 19:02:20 -0600 (CST) From: "James D. Butt 'J.D'" <jbutt@mwci.net> To: Nathaniel Schein <nschein@prisa.com> Cc: Stephen Bader <viper@viper.jorsm.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Network Connectivity Problem Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9912161856570.24765-100000@boom.firecracker.com> In-Reply-To: <NDBBICKHJKPPFKPKPBFEAEBMDAAA.nschein@prisa.com>
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> This is a serious problem that I encountered once with a 3C509 NIC (ep0) on > 3.3-RELEASE. The network would just stop working after 3-4hours. I solved > the problem only after installing 3.2-Stable and making world. I don't know > if the make world was necessary but I did it for good measure. Since, the > system is rock solid and is being used for internal DNS, Sendmail and the We have had the problem with FreeBSD 2.2.5-Release and 3.3-Stable and BSDI 2.0 with 3c509c's and cheap ne2k's.. I always assume that it was due to either bad netcard code or more than likely crap nic's....as we have never seen this on any SMC or tulip based nic's... my 2 cents.. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- James D. Butt 'J.D.' jbutt@mwci.net - jbutt@firecracker.com MidWest Communications, Inc. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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