From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Jun 20 18:07:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA01610 for isp-outgoing; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 18:07:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from schizo.cdsnet.net (schizo.cdsnet.net [204.118.244.32]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA01605 for ; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 18:07:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (mrcpu@localhost) by schizo.cdsnet.net (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id SAA29682; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 18:12:37 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 18:12:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Jaye Mathisen To: Brian Tao cc: FREEBSD-ISP-L , Greg Rowe , angio@aros.net Subject: Re: Computer disappears from the network, then reappears...? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Me too, but I fix it by killing and restarting routed. The down-up ifconfig didn't work. I've logged the routed output, and don't see anything going on, I just lose all connectivity. It's happened a few times in the last couple days now. I'm running -stable, booted about a 40 days or so ago. On Thu, 20 Jun 1996, Brian Tao wrote: > On Tue, 11 Jun 1996, Greg Rowe wrote: > > > > We've seen a similar problem on 4 different systems in the last couple > > weeks. Three were running 2.1 Release and one running -Current. All > > three use the SMC EtherPower card. The symptoms were that system > > appeared to be running fine, but you couldn't telnet, ping, etc. into > > the box. > > Okay, I've started seeing this on my 2.2-960501 workstation, after > six weeks of perfectly good behaviour. In fact, it hung on me three > times in the past two days. 'ifconfig de0 down ; ifconfig de0 up' > clears things up, as someone had suggested. I haven't tried pinging > it from another server yet. > > None of our Internet servers have been afflicted with this > problem, and they are also running the same OS release, using the same > model of SMC EtherPower cards bought both some months before and after > the one in my workstation. I don't know if there is any correlation > to a chip- or board-level revision on these SMC's. > -- > Brian Tao (BT300, taob@io.org, taob@ican.net) > Systems and Network Administrator, Internet Canada Corp. > "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't" >