From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 17 13:34:37 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF22316A4C0 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 2003 13:34:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from niwun.pair.com (niwun.pair.com [209.68.2.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CB5D643FB1 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 2003 13:34:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from silby@silby.com) Received: (qmail 85785 invoked by uid 3193); 17 Sep 2003 20:34:36 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 17 Sep 2003 20:34:36 -0000 Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 16:34:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike Silbersack X-X-Sender: silby@niwun.pair.com To: Ed Anisko In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TCP-IP connection fails after n minutes X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 20:34:37 -0000 On Sun, 17 Aug 2003, Ed Anisko wrote: > email1: - Dead > It worked fine for a day, now after a reboot i get the following error: > sis0: PHY failed to come ready. > the whole box hangs and needs the power cut to come back up, at which point it repeats the same problem. Try rebooting without the network cable plugged in, and/or see if you can plug it into a different brand of switch. > at its ip for 30 mins and then.... It can ping itself but it can't ping > its gateway router. and no other computer can ping it. But it doesn't For future reference, pinging itself means nothing; such pings are handled inside the kernel and never actually hit the network card. Could you post the dmesg output of the machines along with what ifconfig looks like on machine 2 when it's working and when it's not working? Thanks, Mike "Silby" Silbersack