From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 8 5:30:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.monmouth.com (mail.monmouth.com [209.191.58.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E95B37B69A for ; Tue, 8 Aug 2000 05:30:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@monmouth.com) Received: from ops1.monmouth.com (ops-gw-1.monmouth.com [209.191.13.3]) by mail.monmouth.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA28084 for ; Tue, 8 Aug 2000 08:30:19 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20000808083343.00b9e990@mail.monmouth.com> X-Sender: mark@mail.monmouth.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 08:35:23 -0400 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Mark Subject: FreeBsd and Cisco Catalyst problem Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I have posted to the email list a couple of times so far about my problems with FreeBSD 3.4 (and now 4.1) concerning intermittent loss of connectivity to the network through a Cisco Catalyst 1900. The cat is set to 10Mb half duplex and so is my NIC (3Com and also a netgear) This connection cannot stay live for any given length of time. If I start a ping from the console to a box on the network or off the network, the connection stays up for hours but as soon as I kill the ping out, the intermittent loss starts again. I built a quick 4.1 kernel (GENERIC) and tried it but had the same results. Has anyone experienced this type of problem as I am sure it has to do with the Cat vs FreeBsd because if I set the machine up an a peer to peer network only going through a hub, NO problems. Dropping the Catalyst for another brand is not an option. Thanks for any help or guidance you can offer Mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message