Date: Sun, 27 Jul 1997 21:47:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Dave Babler <dbabler@Rigel.orionsys.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Network/Routed Problem Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970727214551.6107K-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.970727153739.1236B-100000@Rigel.orionsys.com>
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On Sun, 27 Jul 1997, Dave Babler wrote: > What happens is this: the system suddenly cannot reach any host. Ping > reports that my router (which is functioning perfectly) is down. After > this point, rebooting the system does NOT fix the problem; the rc.network > hangs on starting routed. It will eventually reboot correctly again, but > it may take a dozen tries (including power-offs and reprogramming the NIC > from DOS, neither of which seem to make any difference). I've only seen > this problem since upgrading to 2.2 with then new driver (ie0) - I'm using > an Intel EtherExpress 16, which used to be the ix0 driver. I'm running > 2.2-STABLE. Between reboots of BSD, testing the NIC under DOS shows it to > be completely functional. Unfortunately the support for the Intel EtherExpress series leaves much to be desired. We had to abandon an EtherExpress16 on our 486 server due to occaisional problems and traded it in for a totally flawless NE2000. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo
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