From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 16 10:33:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from server1.axiomadvertising.com (server1.axiomadvertising.com [216.251.6.158]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6567237B491 for ; Fri, 16 Feb 2001 10:33:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from axiomadvertising.com ([216.251.6.139]) by server1.axiomadvertising.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f1GIXh930801; Fri, 16 Feb 2001 12:33:43 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from joe@axiomadvertising.com) Message-ID: <3A8D7287.7F317110@axiomadvertising.com> Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 12:33:43 -0600 From: Joe Guetler X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 (Macintosh; U; PPC) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "G. Jason Middleton" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dropping off the face of the earthI have References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You know...I had the exact same problem....all of a sudden one day the network interface went down. I would do the ifconfig down and up thing and it would work fine for about 1-3 days. Thought it might have been my NIC and brought in some spares from home, but before I could get them in the BIND advisory came out and I cvsuped to the lastest source. Been up 16 days straight since (knock on wood). Joe Guetler "G. Jason Middleton" wrote: > i have been using freebsd for sometime now and occasionally while i am > telneted in to the box it will just drop the connection to the network > completely! it cannot be pinged or browsed or telneted to. > When i go to the console and try to ping another machine it give a buffer > error. I am nto sure exactly what the error is right now because i cannot > be infront of the console right now. > SO to cure this problem i have been doing an ifconfig down and then back > up and it comes back up on the network....someone mentioned NMBCLUSTERS at > one point but i do not know what they are... > > Whatever shall i do? > > Regards, > > G. Jason Middleton > > _______________________________________________________________________________ > > Announcement: > > The revolution will not be televised. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message