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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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