From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 4 16:57:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E64A37B981 for ; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 16:57:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e350N9K08604; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 17:23:09 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 17:23:09 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Jens Rehsack Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: connection problem: FreeBSD Computer does not respond Message-ID: <20000404172309.V20770@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <38EA7F40.FE128093@informatik.uni-halle.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <38EA7F40.FE128093@informatik.uni-halle.de>; from rehsack@informatik.uni-halle.de on Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 01:48:16AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Jens Rehsack [000404 17:19] wrote: > Hi! > > I'm a FreeBSD "newbie" (you would call it so, wouldn't you?), and I have > installed > a machine with FreeBSD 3.4 (distribution from Walnut Creek CDROM). > The system works fine, except that the system doesn't answer for any > ip-requests > (ECHO REQ., FTP-Connect, NFS-Connect) before I didn't ping a machine. > which machine > that is makes no different. > When I've pinged a machine, the system will answer incoming packets for > half an > hour (or so), and the theater begins again... > > outgoing connection I can start from this machine without any problems. > What may the reason for such an incredible behavior? I would try upgrading to 3-stable, see: http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/cutting-edge.html In the future it's much more helpful if you can include such information as which ethernet card you're using and perhaps what other system components you have installed as well as the motherboard type. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message