From owner-freebsd-net Tue Sep 21 0:13: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from ritchie.wplus.net (relay.wplus.net [195.131.52.179]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87FEB14FF5 for ; Tue, 21 Sep 1999 00:12:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dms@woland.wplus.net) Received: from woland.wplus.net (woland.wplus.net [195.131.0.39]) by ritchie.wplus.net (8.9.1/8.9.1/wplus.2) with ESMTP id LAA05016; Tue, 21 Sep 1999 11:12:54 +0400 (MSK/MSD) X-Real-To: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Received: (from dms@localhost) by woland.wplus.net (8.9.2/8.9.1/wplus.2) id LAA03114; Tue, 21 Sep 1999 11:12:54 +0400 (MSD) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=KOI8-R Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 11:12:53 +0400 (MSD) From: Dmitry Samersoff To: Vince Vielhaber Subject: RE: 3.2 and 3com Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 20-Sep-99 Vince Vielhaber wrote: > > I have an odd one going on. In the last couple of weeks we installed 3.2 > (from the CDs) on 7 machines. 5 were new pIII-450's ASUS MB with 3C905 > PCI network cards, two are older Pentium 150's with 3C509B's - ISA, all > with 128MB ram. All power management stuff is turned off in BIOS. These > machines, if left alone with no traffic, will seem to drop off the network. > No ping, no telnet, no ssh. If you walk up to the console you can log in > and ping anywhere you want and suddenly you can get in from outside again. > It's like it was woke up. It also wakes up if a cronjob sends mail. Right > now I have open pings running to a couple of the machines to keep them > awake. The only things these machines seem to have in common are: 10base-t, > FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE, 128MB Ram and a Cisco Catalyst 1900 switch. > > Anyone seen this before or have any ideas? Looks like IRQ problem ... Is all plug-play-cry possibility (BIOS and 3C5x9 setup) disabled and 3C5x9 IRQ marked as reserved for ISA in BIOS? Try to set IRQ to Free's 3C5x9 driver explicitly. --- Dmitry Samersoff, dms@wplus.net, ICQ:3161705 http://devnull.wplus.net * There will come soft rains ... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message