From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 6 13:40:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sdf.lonestar.org (sdf.lonestar.org [207.202.214.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89D2937B40A for ; Mon, 6 May 2002 13:40:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from thursday@localhost) by sdf.lonestar.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g46Kdhf01956; Mon, 6 May 2002 20:39:43 GMT Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 20:39:43 +0000 From: what To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: nic problems Message-ID: <20020506203943.A4978@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I recently built a new box with two nics, one a Kingston 10/00 (dc0) on the inside, the other an old 3Com 10 (xl0) base t card on the outside to dsl. Boot up hangs when starting sendmail. Hmm. Ctrl-c to speed things along. Then I notice that ifconfig -a tells me that dc0: [snip] status: no carrier. Yucky. ping 192.168.1.1 (the ip married to dc0). Brings it up. It's a brand new nic (actually, 6 months old, but never been used). I assume that sendmail is hanging because the nic is down. It seems to hang in perpetuity. Any hints on how to resolve this? I wrote a little script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d to ping dc0 once & bring it up, and I can disable sendmail in rc.conf & invoke it after my ping script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d, but I am wondering if others have had similar experiences, and if there's some other, better, less hacky fix, or if I should just replace the f*ing nic. Thanks! -- thursday@sdf.lonestar.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message