Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1999 11:28:59 -0600 (CST) From: Wayne M Barnes <stabilizer@klentaq.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Stable) Subject: ethernet hard or soft failure Message-ID: <199911011728.LAA53029@klentaq.com>
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Dear FreeBSDers,
Is the following recurrent failure a hardware or software failure?
My 3.3 system loses its internet connection often, but only in
the past 3 weeks. Before that this did not happen for years.
Right in the middle of using ssh to it for emailing, it will lock
up. Back at the console, the system is still up, but only one
ping can get out, or fewer. The rest of the pings give
ping: sendto: No buffer space available
ping: sendto: No buffer space available
ping: sendto: No buffer space available
My loads are never really heavy, but there is no correlation with heavy
or light loads. I have tried 2 brands of fresh ethernet cards
(but both seem to use rl0) in 2 different PCI slots. Also I have
tried 2 different ethernet ports to our dept. network.
A reboot gets the system going normally for awhile. MTBF = 1 day,
but sometimes it's 5 minutes.
The system with the problem is:
FreeBSD barnes1.wustl.edu 3.3-STABLE FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE #10: Wed Oct 27 13:38:51 CDT 1999 wayne@barnes1.wustl.edu:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENEONE i386
Wayne M Barnes stabilizer@klentaq.com
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