From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 4 17:16:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp01do.de.uu.net (smtp01do.de.uu.net [192.76.144.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D4C437B595 for ; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 17:16:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rehsack@informatik.uni-halle.de) Received: from informatik.uni-halle.de ([195.124.230.62]) by smtp01do.de.uu.net (5.5.5/5.5.5) with ESMTP id CAA20999; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 02:15:43 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <38EA84C5.73EC3E1A@informatik.uni-halle.de> Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 02:11:49 +0200 From: Jens Rehsack Organization: LiWing X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [de] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: connection problem: FreeBSD Computer does not respond References: <38EA7F40.FE128093@informatik.uni-halle.de> <20000404172309.V20770@fw.wintelcom.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alfred Perlstein schrieb: > > * 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 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 --- 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