Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 12:45:40 -0400 (EDT) From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: jwg@netbox.com (Jeff Gray) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG (Questions at FreeBSD) Subject: Re: fixed IP, losing net connection Message-ID: <199910101645.MAA28620@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910100706210.20725-100000@cm-24-142-61-16.cableco-op.ispchannel.com> from Jeff Gray at "Oct 10, 1999 07:22:58 am"
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Jeff Gray wrote, > Help is appreciated. > > New PIII box, running 3.3 Release on cable modem with fixed IP. Intel > Card, fxp0 128MB of Ram. Single user machine, for now. > > Runs wonderfully for awhile, 10 hours or so, sometimes longer. Then all of > a sudden I lose connection to the net. cannot ping out. can ping > localhost, can ping othermachines on the same network hub. The outside > world can ping my IP [tried it from an unrelated connection]. telnetting > to my fixed IP, from the outside, leads to a connection refused message. > > As far as I can tell when I lose connectivity nothing else is affected. > kde running fine as are all aps. > > No error message in dmesg or /var/log/messages. Nothing unusual. > netstat shows I am not connected > sockstat shows httpd, sendmail, telnet running > ps, of course, confirms it. > > 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. > > Two questions. > > 1. How can I get connectivity back without rebooting? > > 2. Likly cause of this problems? What do you mean by, "netstat shows I am not connected?" You also indicate that you have your own hub. What is the topology of your local net behind the modem? -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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