Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 02:11:49 +0200 From: Jens Rehsack <rehsack@informatik.uni-halle.de> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: connection problem: FreeBSD Computer does not respond Message-ID: <38EA84C5.73EC3E1A@informatik.uni-halle.de> References: <38EA7F40.FE128093@informatik.uni-halle.de> <20000404172309.V20770@fw.wintelcom.net>
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Alfred Perlstein schrieb: > > * Jens Rehsack <rehsack@informatik.uni-halle.de> [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 I think my 3.4-stable is the most current version? > 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. The system is an i486DX2-66, HiNT motherboard (EISA), Y2K compliant 32MB RAM (8x4MB) eth0 => vx0 => 3c597 (3Com Fast-Etherlink III - EISA) disk-controller: AHA-2742AT (twin-channel aic7xxx compatible with floppy port) two scsi-disks (both id0, on different channels) yamaha cdr-200 on id 1, channel B (primary) Spea-V7 1MB VL vga card 8-bit I/O-card for mouse --> no X installed -- Jens Rehsack --- <rehsack@informatik.uni-halle.de> http://www.informatik.uni-halle.de/~rehsack/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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