From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Oct 11 09:36:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA26819 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 11 Oct 1997 09:36:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from kaori.communique.net (kaori.communique.net [204.27.67.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA26812 for ; Sat, 11 Oct 1997 09:36:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mango@staff.communique.net) Received: by kaori.communique.net with Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) id ; Sat, 11 Oct 1997 11:35:46 -0500 Message-ID: From: Raul Zighelboim To: "'hackers@freefall.freebsd.org'" Subject: fxp0 lost connectivity! Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1997 11:35:45 -0500 X-Priority: 3 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello there! I have this system running 2.2.2-RELEASE + Patches, were patches: - allow for 512 Megs of Ram - if_fxp.c 1997/06/13 07:45:42 - ahc (and scsi): $Id: aic7870.c,v 1.53 1997/06/27 19:39:34 gibbs Exp $ This system has been working very nicely for over a month now: # uptime 11:25AM up 46 days, 2:34, 1 user, load averages: 0.78, 0.78, 0.83 And the ethernet interface has been quite busy:# netstat -ni Name Mtu Network Address Ipkts Ierrs Opkts Oerrs Coll fxp0 1500 00.a0.c9.66.eb.72 925583797 533386 926780807 2 37893832 then, last night, the server went down :-( Actualy, It did not go down, but the ethernet interface went down. Loggin into the console port and doing 'ifconfig fxp0 up' fixed the problem. Otherwise, everything on the system looks alright, and the only error found on the log files (I log everything) is a lot of: xntpd[86]: sendto(204.27.65.10): No route to host and similar for other running services... So: is this a known problem ? How do I fix it ? What should I look at if it happens again (hardly, as I am running ifconfig from crontab every */5 now), Could bad input packets bring the interface down ? Thanks.