From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 21 6:16:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.i-clue.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5916637B422 for ; Mon, 21 May 2001 06:16:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from so@server.i-clue.de) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.i-clue.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id PAA24533; Mon, 21 May 2001 15:23:50 +0200 Message-ID: <3B09158A.64896CBD@i-clue.de> Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 15:18:02 +0200 From: Christoph Sold Reply-To: so@server.i-clue.de X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [de] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: the-beach Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NIC troubleshooting? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG the-beach schrieb: > > FreeBSD machine with 2 NICs doing the nat thing, all was working fine. > > One NIC died, so I replaced it with some card I just had lying around, a > cheapy. Had to reconfigure all the nat, rc.conf and rc.firewall stuff > because the new cheapy card is a dc type, whatever that means. The working > config before the card failed was NICs de0 & de1, now it's dc0 and de0 (just > in case that's important). > > Now the connection from the nated out workstations to the internet show a > lot of packet loss pinging anywhere outside the private network. > > I wouldn't know what to do other than go buy another NIC and try it. Are > there some cool tools to check what's wrong? Check duplex state of both bords. If a ethernet 10baseT board is connected to a switch, full duplex should be set. For all other cases, half duplex is the way to go. HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message