From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 27 15:10:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA01338 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 27 Jun 1996 15:10:43 -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 PAA01333 for ; Thu, 27 Jun 1996 15:10:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from schizo.cdsnet.net (schizo.cdsnet.net [204.118.244.32]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id PAA06668 for ; Thu, 27 Jun 1996 15:10:37 -0700 Received: from localhost (mrcpu@localhost) by schizo.cdsnet.net (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id PAA20254; Thu, 27 Jun 1996 15:09:21 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 15:09:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Jaye Mathisen To: Kurt Olsen cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: de0: Transmission timeout? In-Reply-To: <199606272155.PAA18357@tiny.mcs.usu.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hmmm, I'm a bit skeptical of this explanation, for the following reason. The same kernel and source tree is on 4 identical boxes (4 P120's), and the 1 P6, and the P6 only has this problem. Swapping cards and slots doesn't fix it either, it's only on the P6. So I'm thinking a hardware problem of somekind, but I can't imagine what. 3com cards work fine, the adaptec works fine, just the darn network card. On Thu, 27 Jun 1996, Kurt Olsen wrote: > 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 >& /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 >