From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 14 12:43:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA01559 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 14 Jul 1998 12:43:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (post-12.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA01550 for ; Tue, 14 Jul 1998 12:42:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from c.raven@ukonline.co.uk) Received: from (ukonline.co.uk) [212.228.66.197] by post.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 1.82 #2) id 0ywAyO-0003au-00; Tue, 14 Jul 1998 19:42:48 +0000 Message-ID: <35ABB4B7.1A35FE44@ukonline.co.uk> Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 20:42:47 +0100 From: Christopher Raven Organization: CIAN X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions Subject: High pings - was tcpdump Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi many thanks to everyone who offered advice and help, it seems I have found the problem ....... its an incompatability ? between my NIC and the motherboard. An afternoons swap session tracked it down to the MB itself and not the cards / configuration. I tried playing with the MB's setings, but to no avail - I guess a new MB is on the cards (or maybe a swap out with another machine). thanks again for all the advice Chris R. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message