From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 15 07:26:31 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 940A61065686 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 07:26:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from QMTA05.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta05.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.30.48]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A3A48FC1A for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 07:26:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from OMTA07.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.59]) by QMTA05.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id SvRZ1a00E1GXsucA5vSX7E; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 07:26:31 +0000 Received: from koitsu.dyndns.org ([69.181.141.110]) by OMTA07.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id SvSW1a0022P6wsM8TvSWT7; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 07:26:30 +0000 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=N8TDiX_OOuEA:10 a=TiS0_Z0ZvfoA:10 a=QycZ5dHgAAAA:8 a=Hwht-nPmU0NZlp4dmCgA:9 a=rVAt6gsuiGqH84db9p6dd_QGVUYA:4 a=EoioJ0NPDVgA:10 a=LY0hPdMaydYA:10 Received: by icarus.home.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 26FF8C9419; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:26:30 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:26:30 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Aniruddha Message-ID: <20081015072630.GA70901@icarus.home.lan> References: <1224054780.4011.20.camel@debian> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1224054780.4011.20.camel@debian> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Under heavy load internet gets killed, only a reboot can bring it back up X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 07:26:31 -0000 On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 09:13:00AM +0200, Aniruddha wrote: > Each time my internet connection is under heavy lead it gets killed > after a minute of 10. I tried the following commands to get the internet > back up, but nothing helped: > > /etc/rc.d/netif restart > ifconfig mynic down > ifconfig mynic up > > Even worse the last time I issued a '/etc/rc.d/netif restart' my whole > system hardlocked (wasn't responding to capslock presses). So far the > only solution has been te reboot the computer. Is there any way I can > prevent my internet connection from getting killed? How do I get it back > up after it has been killed? Thanks in advance! What network card are you using? Can you provide output from the following commands? dmesg vmstat -i netstat -in -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |