Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 11:29:44 -0800 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: "Drew J. Weaver" <drew.weaver@thenap.com> Cc: "'freebsd-net@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-net@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Really odd problem Message-ID: <3A2D4228.C586BFF6@elischer.org> References: <B1A7D9973EBED3119ADD009027DC864918083E@mailman.thenap.com>
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> "Drew J. Weaver" wrote:
>
> We have a Freebsd 4.2 box on our network, after the box boots, it
> brings up the network and everything is great, I can telnet into it..
> everything good, but about 30-60 minutes later no incoming traffic is getting
> to the server. If i ping the machine, or telnet to it, I get nothing. If I go
> to the terminal and ping anything then it "wakes up" does anyone have any idea
> what would cause it to stop "listening" to incoming network requests? This is
> becoming very tiresome and i've done everything known to me.
Are you getting messages on the console?
possibly the card is bad and dies after a while..
the transmit timeout for many drivers will try reinitialise the chip.
Which may bring it back to life... (for a while)
you could always add 'ping -i 120 [some address]'
to some startup script
:-)
>
> Thanks,
> -Drew
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