Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 11:02:37 +0800 (SGT) From: chas <panda@peace.com.my> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: NIC woes : server visible on our network only. Message-ID: <3.0.32.19980117110938.009379b0@peace.com.my>
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We have been having woes - When our machine boots/restarts, the messages appear on the screen and all seems to be going well in the boot process until it gets to the NIC config. ep0 : .<blah>..... ether Once this appears on the screen, the process seems to halt. I then have to press CTRL + C to get it to finish booting. (the next line says something about clearing /tmp) - I have since learned that this is not a very cool thing to do. For the past few days, it appears that all incoming mail on this mailserver was not arriving. Anyone outside our network could not even ping the machine, even by IP number. Yet internally we could use the mail server without problem for sending / receiving. We could also ping it fine. Basically the machine was invisible to anyone not on our network. So, now, when the bootup stalls, I ping the machine or try to check my mail from another machine. Whilst both of these will fail, it does seem to persuade the mailserver to complete the boot process. Has anyone any explanation for the above ? (we are using 3com etherlink III NICs) Cheers, chas
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