From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 4 12:57:04 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA29251 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 4 Sep 1996 12:57:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from saturn.momentum.com (a254.momentum.com [199.103.153.254]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA29245 for ; Wed, 4 Sep 1996 12:57:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from a8.momentum.com (a8.momentum.com [199.103.153.8]) by saturn.momentum.com (NTMail 3.02.09) with ESMTP id pa003967 for ; Wed, 4 Sep 1996 15:58:25 -0400 Message-Id: <3.0b11.32.19960904155726.0056a860@mail.momentum.com> X-Sender: brazile@mail.momentum.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0b11 (32) Date: Wed, 04 Sep 1996 15:57:26 -0400 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Robert Brazile Subject: problem with Etherlink III Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I've done some searching in the archive and been unable to find something that exactly applies to my problem, so I am appealing to this group for some help. I have a Gateway 2000 (sympathy accepted) P5-90 that I'm trying to turn into a FreeBSD-based gateway. Installation of the system (2.1.5) went uneventfully, and everything seems to work just fine -- except the network interface. The card is a 3Com Etherlink III and I am using the ep0 interface. When the system comes up, the network interface works [i.e., I can ping things, get DNS queries resolved, etc.] but as soon as anyone tries to do anything "real", such as telnet into the machine, the network interface locks up and NOTHING goes through. We've seen a running ping just stop receiving packets when someone else tries to log in via telnet. Varying the interface with ifconfig brings it back. Is there a way around this short of replacing the card? Any help is much appreciated. Robert Brazile Momentum Inc.