From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Jun 4 15:42:07 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA20299 for isp-outgoing; Tue, 4 Jun 1996 15:42:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA20292 for ; Tue, 4 Jun 1996 15:42:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chloe.dmv.com (chloe.dmv.com [206.30.64.31]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id PAA09371 for ; Tue, 4 Jun 1996 15:41:14 -0700 Received: (from patrick@localhost) by chloe.dmv.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id SAA07181; Tue, 4 Jun 1996 18:46:47 -0400 Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1996 18:46:47 -0400 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 0.3-beta [p0] on FreeBSD In-Reply-To: Reply-To: patrick@chloe.dmv.com From: Patrick Ferguson To: Steve Reid Subject: RE: Computer disappears from the network, then reappears...? Cc: Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu May 30 00:30:25 1996 Steve Reid wrote: >>This is strange... Has anyone else seen this happen? > > >It appears as though the machine lost it's network connection (ethernet) >then got it back... netstat -in shows a few hundred 'Oerrors' which seems >to confirm that the network connection was lost. > Only when someone unplugged the terminator from the back of their computer. Which happened just the other day. All the machines on the net came back except the one computer. The console was fine, but no network connection. Had to reboot the machine. >running. > >I would guess maybe this is an ARP problem, but I don't know. I've never >seen it happen before. Has anyone else seen this? > > >===================================================================== >| Steve Reid - SysAdmin & Pres, EDM Web (http://www.edmweb.com/) | >| Email: steve@edmweb.com Home Page: http://www.edmweb.com/steve/ | >| PGP (2048/9F317269) Fingerprint: 11C89D1CD67287E68C09EC52443F8830 | >| -- Disclaimer: JMHO, YMMV, TANSTAAFL, IANAL. -- | >===================================================================:)