From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 12 03:45:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA16748 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 12 Apr 1998 03:45:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dog.farm.org (gw-hssi-2.farm.org [209.66.103.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA16699 for ; Sun, 12 Apr 1998 03:45:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dog.farm.org!dk) Received: (from dk@localhost) by dog.farm.org (8.7.5/dk#3) id DAA13126; Sun, 12 Apr 1998 03:46:04 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1998 03:46:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Dmitry Kohmanyuk Message-Id: <199804121046.DAA13126@dog.farm.org> To: abial@nask.pl (Andrzej Bialecki) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: de problem Newsgroups: cs-monolit.gated.lists.freebsd.hackers Organization: FARM Computing Association Reply-To: dk+@ua.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article you wrote: > If you're running version which supports 'media' flags to the interface, > then manually run ifconfig to select the proper media (de driver tries > autoselecting other media in case of link failure, and doesn't autosense > when the proper link goes up again). If not, try doing ifconfig de0 down, > then up - at least this helps in my case... the canonical kludge is to have this * * * * * root fping router >/dev/null || ( ifconfig de0 down ; sleep 5 ; ifconfig de0 up ) in your /etc/crontab (edit router to ip address of your router; install fping from ports.) I have seen this problem happen with both 2.2.2 and 2.2.5 de driver, on hubs and switches (catalyst). Forcing media type (both on a host and on a switch) helps, but not always. -- And on the seventh day, He finished the alpha-testing. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message