Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 15:55:32 -0600 From: Kurt Olsen <kurto@tiny.mcs.usu.edu> To: hackers@FreeBSD.org, mrcpu@cdsnet.net Subject: Re: de0: Transmission timeout? Message-ID: <199606272155.PAA18357@tiny.mcs.usu.edu>
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I've seen this same behavior and a knowledgable friend tells me it's a common bug. Claims that it expires the arp entry for the default router, so you can't talk to it from anywhere outside the subnet. A work-around is to have either a cron job that pings out of your subnet every few minutes, or just do what I do and: % ping -i 300 <somedistanthost> >& /dev/null & I haven't look into the kernel to see if this is the case though, but the ping does the job (as well as logging in from the console, then telneting out.) Kurt
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