From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 4 17:29:11 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 EB53437B9B7 for ; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 17:29:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e350sjA09556; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 17:54:45 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 17:54:45 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Jens Rehsack Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: connection problem: FreeBSD Computer does not respond Message-ID: <20000404175445.X20770@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <38EA7F40.FE128093@informatik.uni-halle.de> <20000404172309.V20770@fw.wintelcom.net> <38EA84C5.73EC3E1A@informatik.uni-halle.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <38EA84C5.73EC3E1A@informatik.uni-halle.de>; from rehsack@informatik.uni-halle.de on Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 02:11:49AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Jens Rehsack [000404 17:41] wrote: > > > 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? No, if you've installed from CDrom then you have 3.4-RELEASE, some time has passed since the release and various fixes have been put into the source since then, read the URL i sent you and do the upgrade, it may help. > > > 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) it looks like guido@freebsd.org is the writer/maintainer of the driver, you may want to toss him an mail directly and describe the problem. > 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 > Lastly, are you sure you don't have some sort of power-management or APM on? I'm kinda grasping at straws here, but 30 minutes seems to be a nice round number for APM/power-management. -- -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