Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 17:28:28 +0000 From: Samvel Stepanian <sam@arminco.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD hanging because of ethernet Message-ID: <33DF79BC.41C67EA6@arminco.com>
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Dear hackers, I am experiencing repeated hangings of FreeBSD-2.2.2 box and I suppose that these hangings are related with ethernet. Before hanging I have the following dump on console from arpwatch: Jul 30 21:09:55 nic arpwatch: 0:c0:5:1:7:9c sent packet not ETHERTYPE_IP (0x811) Jul 30 21:09:55 nic arpwatch: 0:c0:5:1:7:9c sent bad hardware format 0xff Jul 30 21:09:55 nic arpwatch: 0:c0:5:1:7:9c sent bad addr len (hard 6, prot 19) Jul 30 21:09:55 nic arpwatch: 0:c0:5:1:7:9c sent packet not ETHERTYPE_IP (0x811) Jul 30 21:10:43 nic arpwatch: 0:c0:5:1:7:9c sent bad hardware format 0xff Jul 30 21:10:43 nic arpwatch: 0:c0:5:1:7:9c sent bad addr len (hard 255, prot 255) Jul 30 21:11:13 nic arpwatch: 0:c0:5:1:7:9c sent wrong arp op 21 Jul 30 21:11:13 nic arpwatch: 0:c0:5:1:7:9c sent bad addr len (hard 70, prot 4) Jul 30 21:11:44 nic arpwatch: 0:c0:5:1:7:9c sent bad hardware format 0xff then system immediately freezes. 0:c0:5:1:7:9c is our Livingston Enterprises PM-2e terminal server which is a default gateway in our network. our LAN is 10-base-2 based. I tried to change the card in BSD box - it didn't help. We have another FreeBSD box (which is 2.1.5 actually) on the same net and it also hangs almost simultaneously with mine when these Ethernet problems are starting. Please advise what is the problem? A buggy ethernet card in our LAN? Why FreeBSD should hang because of Ethernet problems? What are that "bad hardware format" ARP problems? Please help! Regards, Sam
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