From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 10 9: 5:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from malkav.snowmoon.com (machine-126-237.cdcsd.k12.ny.us [208.20.126.237]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F1C5915267 for ; Sun, 10 Oct 1999 09:04:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jaime@malkav.snowmoon.com) Received: (qmail 49670 invoked by uid 1001); 10 Oct 1999 16:04:58 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 10 Oct 1999 16:04:58 -0000 Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 12:04:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Jaime Kikpole To: Jeff Gray Cc: Questions at FreeBSD Subject: Re: fixed IP, losing net connection In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, Jeff Gray wrote: > If I reboot then connection come back. Hardy what I wish to do :-) > > Tried killing inetd and restarting the daemon. > Tried kill -HUP 1 > Neither gets connectivity back. Its not a program going crazy, then. It sounded more like a cable-modem-company inflicted problem anyway. I'm on Road Runner at home and they screw with my IP all the time. Similar symptoms. One thing that's different between us, though, is that they assign me a dynamic IP via DHCP not a static one. Is DHCP used in your system anywhere? > Two questions. > > 1. How can I get connectivity back without rebooting? > > 2. Likly cause of this problems? Do you still have a link light on your ethernet card when this problem occurs? If not, its probably not a FreeBSD problem. You also might want to try using ipfw to log traffic coming into your ethernet card in order to see if anything funny is going on. To do that, compile the pseudo device bpf and the options that have "IPFIREWALL" or "IPFILTER" in them into your kernel. Then set up some ipfw rules to log the data on your ethernet card. By doing this I've found a number of attempts by script kiddies to use Window vulnerabilities against my system. :) Jaime To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message