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Date:      Tue, 08 Aug 2000 10:04:29 -0500
From:      "Jonathan E. Lyons" <parrothd@midwest.net>
To:        Mark <mark@monmouth.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBsd and Cisco Catalyst problem
Message-ID:  <3.0.5.32.20000808100429.008e4140@midwest.net>
In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20000808083343.00b9e990@mail.monmouth.com>

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Did you swapout the 3com card with another brand??

>
>I have posted to the email list a couple of times so far about my problems 
>with FreeBSD 3.4 (and now 4.1)
>concerning intermittent loss of connectivity to the network through a Cisco 
>Catalyst 1900.
>The cat is set to 10Mb half duplex and so is my NIC (3Com and also a netgear)
>This connection cannot stay live for any given length of time. If I start a 
>ping from the console to a box on the network or off the network, the 
>connection stays up for hours but as soon as I kill the ping out, the 
>intermittent loss starts again.
>I built a quick 4.1 kernel (GENERIC) and tried it but had the same results.
>
>Has anyone experienced this type of problem as I am sure it has to do with 
>the Cat vs FreeBsd because if I set
>the machine up an a peer to peer network only going through a hub, NO
problems.
>Dropping the Catalyst for another brand is not an option.

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