From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jan 24 22:49:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.enteract.com (mail.enteract.com [207.229.143.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E847737B402 for ; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 22:49:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from jamestown.enteract.com (24-148-57-6.na.21stcentury.net [24.148.57.6]) by mail.enteract.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA05830 for ; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 00:49:28 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from jtm@enteract.com) Received: by jamestown.enteract.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA04840 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 00:48:08 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from jtm) From: James McNaughton Reply-To: jtm63@enteract.com To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Network stops working Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 00:26:32 -0600 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain References: <001001c08628$8db16180$9d8fc918@videotron.ca> <20010124164125.A12612@home.com> In-Reply-To: <20010124164125.A12612@home.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01012500480800.01077@jamestown.enteract.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have experienced a similar issue with my cable modem service. Look at this from /var/log/messages: Jan 23 14:20:56 jamestown /kernel: arp: 00:20:78:d0:28:12 is using my IP address 0.0.0.0! Jan 23 14:20:56 jamestown /kernel: arp: 00:20:78:d0:28:12 is using my IP address 0.0.0.0! Jan 24 21:39:25 jamestown /kernel: arp: 00:50:8b:aa:68:a9 is using my IP address 24.148.62.76! What you need to know first is: Do you have a static IP address or is the ISP using DHCP? Set your configuration accordingly. See Section 17.8 DHCP of the FreeBSD Handbook for help on DHCP. It's really simple. Are you getting messages like I am above? This could be a sign of a misconfigured NIC. Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message