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Date:      Thu, 27 Jun 1996 15:09:20 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@cdsnet.net>
To:        Kurt Olsen <kurto@tiny.mcs.usu.edu>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: de0: Transmission timeout?
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.92.960627150803.8567m-100000@schizo.cdsnet.net>
In-Reply-To: <199606272155.PAA18357@tiny.mcs.usu.edu>

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Hmmm, I'm a bit skeptical of this explanation, for the following reason.
The same kernel and source tree is on 4 identical boxes (4 P120's), and
the 1 P6, and the P6 only has this problem.  Swapping cards and slots
doesn't fix it either, it's only on the P6.

So I'm thinking a hardware problem of somekind, but I can't imagine what.
3com cards work fine, the adaptec works fine, just the darn network card.

On Thu, 27 Jun 1996, Kurt Olsen wrote:

> I've seen this same behavior and a knowledgable friend tells me it's a
> common bug.  Claims that it expires the arp entry for the default router,
> so you can't talk to it from anywhere outside the subnet.  A work-around
> is to have either a cron job that pings out of your subnet every few minutes,
> or just do what I do and:
>
> % ping -i 300 <somedistanthost> >& /dev/null &
>
> I haven't look into the kernel to see if this is the case though, but the
> ping does the job (as well as logging in from the console, then telneting
> out.)
>
> Kurt
>




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