Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 11:11:45 -0600 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> To: Luc Morin <luc_m@videotron.ca>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Network stops working Message-ID: <3A71AFD1.4813ED39@math.missouri.edu> References: <001001c08628$8db16180$9d8fc918@videotron.ca> <20010124164125.A12612@home.com> <01012500480800.01077@jamestown.enteract.com> <3A6FD545.3D329446@quake.com.au> <002b01c086e4$2c843060$9d8fc918@videotron.ca> <3A705EAA.23BD59B4@quake.com.au> <005a01c086f7$337f51c0$9d8fc918@videotron.ca> <3A706A34.E5F1C502@math.missouri.edu>
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Just to add - when dhcp does successfully negotiate, it does take a very long time to do it - several minutes - certainly a lot longer than it used to. Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > > That's interesting - I have a similar problem that also > just started recently (coincided with changing my power > supply but I'm sure that it is unrelated). I find that > one of three things happens: > > 1. dhcp simply does not successfully negotiate > > 2. dhcp negotiates, gets an IP number and a router, but > then I get 100% packet loss. (Never tried calling them to > see if they got through to me.) > > 3. It actually works. > > Option 2 is what usually happens, but if I restarting > dhcp enough times, I get option 3. Since I keep the > connection up all the time, I only worry about the > problem sporadically. So I have never tried to investigate > its cause. (The ISP is att@home if that is useful. My > NIC is a RealTek 8139.) > -- Stephen Montgomery-Smith stephen@math.missouri.edu 307 Math Science Building stephen@showme.missouri.edu Department of Mathematics stephen@missouri.edu University of Missouri-Columbia Columbia, MO 65211 USA Phone (573) 882 4540 Fax (573) 882 1869 http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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