From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Nov 1 10: 9:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from tetron03.tetronsoftware.com (tetron03.tetronsoftware.com [208.236.46.108]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B92EA152D1 for ; Mon, 1 Nov 1999 10:09:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from zeus@tetron03.tetronsoftware.com) Received: from tetron03.tetronsoftware.com (tetron03.tetronsoftware.com [208.236.46.108]) by tetron03.tetronsoftware.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA21874; Mon, 1 Nov 1999 12:11:01 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from zeus@tetron03.tetronsoftware.com) Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1999 12:11:00 -0600 (CST) From: Gene Harris To: Wayne M Barnes Cc: FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: ethernet hard or soft failure In-Reply-To: <199911011728.LAA53029@klentaq.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Wayne, Have you performed a make world recently to ensure that your "world" is syncronous with your kernel? Is this also the same machine that is causing core dumps with star office? I assume you've added all the stuff to your kernel necessary to get so running. You may also need to "remake" your Linux compatibility in order to correct any problems that have creeped into your configuration. Good Luck, Gene On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Wayne M Barnes wrote: > Dear FreeBSDers, > > Is the following recurrent failure a hardware or software failure? > > My 3.3 system loses its internet connection often, but only in > the past 3 weeks. Before that this did not happen for years. > > Right in the middle of using ssh to it for emailing, it will lock > up. Back at the console, the system is still up, but only one > ping can get out, or fewer. The rest of the pings give > > ping: sendto: No buffer space available > ping: sendto: No buffer space available > ping: sendto: No buffer space available > > My loads are never really heavy, but there is no correlation with heavy > or light loads. I have tried 2 brands of fresh ethernet cards > (but both seem to use rl0) in 2 different PCI slots. Also I have > tried 2 different ethernet ports to our dept. network. > > A reboot gets the system going normally for awhile. MTBF = 1 day, > but sometimes it's 5 minutes. > The system with the problem is: > FreeBSD barnes1.wustl.edu 3.3-STABLE FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE #10: Wed Oct 27 13:38:51 CDT 1999 wayne@barnes1.wustl.edu:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENEONE i386 > > Wayne M Barnes stabilizer@klentaq.com > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message