From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 22 10:11:03 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53E4116A4CF for ; Mon, 22 Dec 2003 10:11:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.fibertel.com.ar (mta4.fibertel.com.ar [24.232.0.164]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C4AB43D2D for ; Mon, 22 Dec 2003 10:10:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from garry@wildawake.net) Received: from [24.232.251.79] (24.232.251.79) by mail.fibertel.com.ar (7.0.019) (authenticated as hillgarry) id 3FD1ACEF004926FA; Mon, 22 Dec 2003 15:10:40 -0300 Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 15:10:37 -0300 From: Garry Hill To: Clarence Brown X-Priority: 3 In-Reply-To: <004401c3c8b3$8c828110$906896d1@SAGER> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mailsmith 2.0.2 (Blindsider) cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: new 5.1 install network problem. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 18:11:03 -0000 >>Name resolution is not working and the network connection >>seems to be timing out a lot as all network functions are >>very sluggish. For instance, I CAN ping the IP of my >>name server, however even though the response is less >>than 1ms, there is about 80% packet loss. i was having a very similar problem a while ago. losing 33% of my pings but in my case i couldn't download past 1024 bytes of anything and that not often. in my case it turned out to be a dodgy cable... some kind of internal wire smudge that meant although it looked like a full connection (all lights on etc) it just didn't work with my cards (except on my Mac, which took it fine). have you tried changing the cable? g > Thanks for the Reply: > > No, I hadn't checked, but the autosensing looks good. > Both the card and switch are at 100 and full-duplex. > > Thanks again, Cla. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mike Gruen" > To: "Clarence Brown" > Cc: > Sent: Monday, December 22, 2003 12:35 PM > Subject: Re: new 5.1 install network problem. > > > > Clarence Brown wrote: > > > Thanks for the Reply: > > > > > > I believe that the DNS timeout is a symptom rather than cause > > > of the problem, because I'm getting an 80% packet loss when > > > pinging the IP address of the DNS server. I'm running the DNS > > > servers, and they are on the same LAN. > > > > > I've seen this type of response when there is a mismatch of autosensing > > network adapters. Try forcing your network card to whatever speed and > > duplex setting you prefer to run at and make sure that the switch port > > your connected to is set the same. The machine you're configuring is at > > full-duplex, but the switch may be at half duplex. > > > > > resolv.conf is same on this machine as on other machines that > > > do work. > > > > > > The LAN does have DHCP, but I assigned this FreeBSD > > > machine a static IP at an unused address in a range of addresses > > > that I have reserved for servers. > > > > > > in rc.conf (the ip addresses are the values I expect): > > > > > > defaultrouter="###.###.###.###" > > > hostname="fbsd04.fakeDOMAINname.com" > > > ifconfig_xl0="inet ###.###.###.### netmask ###.###.###.###" > > > > > > in hosts, I had to add the correct domain to localhost, and add > > > entries for the machine's own name, but this didn't seem to help. > > > > > > With further testing, still getting 60%-80% packet loss when trying > > > to ping IP address of other machines on network from problem > > > machine, but some DO get through. Other machines are getting > > > similar results when trying to ping the IP address of the problem > machine. > > > > > > Thanks again, Cla. > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "fbsd_user" > > > To: "Clarence Brown" ; > > > > > > Sent: Monday, December 22, 2003 11:07 AM > > > Subject: RE: new 5.1 install network problem. > > > > > > > > > > > >>You are correct, sure sounds like DNS time out problem. > > >>Do you have hostname='gateway.fakeDOMAINname.com' in rc.conf > > >>Do you have entry in /etc/hosts file for ip address of Nic card and > > >>it's FQDN IE: 'gateway.fakeDOMAINname.com' > > >>If this PC is connected to lan, does the lan use DHCP, and if so do > > >>you have ifconfig_xl0="DHCP" in rc.conf? > > >>Check /etc/resolv.conf to see that it has the IP address of your ISP > > >>DNS severs. > > >> > > >>-----Original Message----- > > >>From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > >>[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Clarence > > >>Brown > > >>Sent: Monday, December 22, 2003 10:16 AM > > >>To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > >>Subject: new 5.1 install network problem. > > >> > > >>Please help me troubleshoot a network problem. In the past, > > >>after installing, it has all just worked, so I'm not sure exactly > > >>how to best proceed. When the PC was formatted as Win98 > > >>the network connection worked fine, and the cabling is on > > >>my work bench and works fine on other test systems, so I don't > > >>suspect a hardware problem. > > >> > > >>I just installed 5.1 from the CD's on to an IBM Aptiva E96. > > >>It has a 3Com 3C905B-TXNM card, which seems to have > > >>been correctly identified. On Boot things seem to proceed > > >>normally until the Sendmail message where the boot seems to > > >>stop for several minutes. (I thought I selected to not enable > > >>sendmail .... ) > > >> > > >>Name resolution is not working and the network connection > > >>seems to be timing out a lot as all network functions are > > >>very sluggish. For instance, I CAN ping the IP of my > > >>name server, however even though the response is less > > >>than 1ms, there is about 80% packet loss. > > >> > > >>nslookup can't connect to the name server, even using IP, > > >>and again I suspect that it is timing out. > > >> > > >>Was able to connect to my FTP server using its IP to try to > > >>transfer some files, for this email, but the connection timed out > > >>nd was reset when trying to cd to the "input" directory. > > >> > > >>Here are what I think are the relevant lines from my messages > > >>log where the card is found on boot: > > >> > > >>Dec 22 09:16:27 fbsd04 kernel: xl0: <3Com 3c905B-TX Fast Etherlink > > >>XL> port > > >>0x7080-0x70ff mem 0x80100000-0x8010007f irq 10 at device 13.0 on > > >>pci0 > > >>Dec 22 09:16:27 fbsd04 kernel: xl0: Ethernet address: > > >>00:10:5a:a0:ce:0b > > >>Dec 22 09:16:27 fbsd04 kernel: miibus0: on xl0 > > >>Dec 22 09:16:27 fbsd04 kernel: xlphy0: <3Com internal media > > >>interface> on > > >>miibus0 > > >>Dec 22 09:16:27 fbsd04 kernel: xlphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, > > >>100baseTX, > > >>100baseTX-FDX, auto > > >> > > >>Here is output from ifconfig with the IPs obscured, but the IP looks > > >>good to > > >>me: > > >> > > >>xl0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 > > >> options=3 > > >> inet ###.###.###.### netmask 0xXXXXXXXX broadcast > > >>###.###.###.### > > >> inet6 fe80::210:5aff:fea0:ce0b%xl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 > > >> ether 00:10:5a:a0:ce:0b > > >> media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX ) > > >> status: active > > >>lp0: flags=8810 mtu 1500 > > >>lo0: flags=8049 mtu 16384 > > >> inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 > > >> inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3 > > >> inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 > > >> > > >>Any ideas/suggestions? > > >> > > >>Thanks, Cla. > > >> > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"