From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 17 8:36:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.mx.pitdc1.stargate.net (smtp1.mx.pitdc1.stargate.net [206.210.69.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EBAEB37B426 for ; Sun, 17 Mar 2002 08:36:24 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 20078 invoked from network); 17 Mar 2002 16:36:19 -0000 Received: from dap-209-166-136-168.nfas.greensburg-tnt-1.sns234.pa.stargate.net (HELO wastegate.net) (209.166.136.168) by smtp1.mx.pitdc1.stargate.net with SMTP; 17 Mar 2002 16:36:19 -0000 Received: from MOTHER (mother.wg.local [192.168.1.2]) by wastegate.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79F284844F; Sun, 17 Mar 2002 11:37:25 -0500 (EST) From: "Doug Reynolds" To: "Brendan McAlpine" , "Patrick O'Reilly" , "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 11:39:32 -0500 Reply-To: "Doug Reynolds" X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.20.2472) For Windows 2000 (5.1.2600) In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: HELP!! problem with new bsd mail server [solved kind of] Message-Id: <20020317163725.79F284844F@wastegate.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 17 Mar 2002 11:24:33 -0500, Brendan McAlpine wrote: >Thanks Patrick. Sorry for the lack of info. > >At this point, all I want is for the machine to run a full 24 hours without >going deaf to network connections. > >Its very strange. The machine is running FreeBSD4.5 and I'm running qmail, >qmailadmin, and sqwebmail. Apache is serving up the qmailadmin and >sqwebmail cgi's. > >The machine is a brand new, dual 1GHZ pentium running RAID 5 across 3 large >SCSI disks. > >Every 3 or 4 hours the machine goes "deaf" to its network set up and no >incoming or outbound traffic can get through. When it goes deaf it can't >even ping the switch its connected to. > >At first I thought the problem was because of the dual ethernet cards. So I >disabled one of them in the bios settings. The machine ran better. After >24 hours or so, it started going deaf every 4 or 5 hours again. > >Since this is happening on a more or less random schedule, I can't pin down >what the problem is. Something is causing the machine to less its >networking ability for about 10 minutes at a time every 4 or 5 hours. > >BTW, I checked my log files and nothing is being logged as errors when the >downtime occurs. The only errors in there are: > >/kernel: stray irq 7 > >I'm unsure of how to move from here....please help..... first thing you need to give us is a dmesg and tell us what kinda network card(s) you are running.. the stray irq 7 sounds like a conflict try turning off your LPT1 printer port in the BIOS (if you aren't using it) and see if that helps --- doug reynolds | the maverick | mav@wastegate.net PGP Public Key Fingerprint: 7FEC 10AA 056B F8DE AC1E 6965 FBBE 9601 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message