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Date:      Wed, 17 Sep 2003 16:34:36 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
To:        Ed Anisko <ed_anisko@hotmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: TCP-IP connection fails after n minutes
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.44.0309171632090.80791-100000@niwun.pair.com>
In-Reply-To: <Sea1-DAV32zfoV1qdii0000f26e@hotmail.com>

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On Sun, 17 Aug 2003, Ed Anisko wrote:

> email1: - Dead
> It worked fine for a day, now after a reboot i get the following error:
> sis0: PHY failed to come ready.
> the whole box hangs and needs the power cut to come back up, at which point it repeats the same problem.

Try rebooting without the network cable plugged in, and/or see if you can
plug it into a different brand of switch.

> at its ip for 30 mins and then.... It can ping itself but it can't ping
> its gateway router. and no other computer can ping it.  But it doesn't

For future reference, pinging itself means nothing; such pings are
handled inside the kernel and never actually hit the network card.

Could you post the dmesg output of the machines along with what ifconfig
looks like on machine 2 when it's working and when it's not working?

Thanks,

Mike "Silby" Silbersack



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