Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 21:15:47 -0600 (CST) From: "Richard Lynch" <ceo@l-i-e.com> To: "David Schulz" <mailinglists@tca-cable-connector.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Loosing Ethernet Connectivity Message-ID: <62460.209.254.223.2.1169435747.squirrel@www.l-i-e.com> In-Reply-To: <037FAB79-B890-46CE-9522-E0A7EE58661F@tca-cable-connector.com> References: <037FAB79-B890-46CE-9522-E0A7EE58661F@tca-cable-connector.com>
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Sounds like flaky/cheap network card to me... [But I'm no expert] Perhaps, however, just doing a cron job every day to do the ifconfig down/up would be a simple work-around. On Sun, January 21, 2007 9:12 pm, David Schulz wrote: > Hello all, > > every once in a while i have a machine (6.1) that out of the blue, > sometimes after days, some after 6 months, looses Ethernet > Connectivity. My Machines just run some Service, and have no > Keyboard / Mouse or Monitor. When the Machine goes down, eg, i am > unable to ping it from another Machine on the Network, even > restarting the machine using "reboot" will not fix the Problem. The > only way to fix it is to login as root, and issue a "ifconfig vr0 > down && ifconfig vr0 up". Then a dmesg Message appears : "vr0: Using > force reset command.", and after that i can successfully ping the > machine again. I have had this Problem on different machines with > different Network Cards, on different Ethernet Cables, and with > FreeBSD Versions 5.5 until 6.1. > > Can anyone please help me to understand and possibly even fix this > Problem? > > Thanks a lot, > David > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some starving artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So?
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