Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 21:55:23 -0800 From: jehamby@lightside.com (Jake Hamby) To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Recurring freeze with 2.1.5 system Message-ID: <199702240555.VAA01312@lightside.com>
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There's a 486 system at my Internet provider that he's set up as a "geek box" for people to hack on. It's a fairly lame configuration (486DX/4 100MHz, 8MB RAM, IDE drives, NE2000 card). Anyway, it has a recurring problem where it will only answer pings. Logins, either remote or from the console, will hang (telnet will connect, but not prompt for username), and the system must be forcibly rebooted. We think it may be a hardware problem, perhaps bad RAM. I'm just curious if there are any known bugs in 2.1.5-RELEASE which might cause this. The systems are similar to a SYN attack, except for the frozen local login. We're going to upgrade it to 2.2-GAMMA next weekend, and hopefully the problems will go away. If not, can we safely conclude that it is a problem of buggy hardware? -- Jake
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