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Date:      Sun, 17 Jun 2001 17:38:53 +0200
From:      "Alfatrion" <alfatrion@cybertron.tmfweb.nl>
To:        "Bill Moran" <wmoran@iowna.com>
Cc:        <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: crash of (proxy) computer
Message-ID:  <004701c0f743$a0e33c10$231fa8c0@dekruijff.nl>
References:  <00e501c0f73b$436c0e20$231fa8c0@dekruijff.nl> <3B2CC560.16B95936@iowna.com> <010d01c0f73e$cf42abe0$231fa8c0@dekruijff.nl> <3B2CC9C7.ED09BCC1@iowna.com>

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> > > > I have seen my computer crash a couple time now. The internet is
used
> > heavly
> > > > (max. 512kb/s for the sum of max. 5 computer) each time. Each time i
> > also
> > > > have a ssh connection on the intranet. I have a 5x86 cytrix ca
100MHz
> > with
> > > > 32MB memory. and FreeBSD 4.3. I have no clue on how to solve this.
> > >
> > > Is it a panic or a freeze?
> > > Make sure you have a monitor/keyboard hooked to this thing so you can
> > > see panic messages. If it's panicing, the panic messages may be a
strong
> > > pointer. Could be buggy hardware somewhere.
> > >
> > The computer is not resonive at all. I can not ping to it, and the
> > screensaver is freezed so i can't see anything. It doesn't responed to
the
> > keybord to!
>
> I'd suspect the network card(s) here. Especially if it's only occurring
> under busy network traffic. What kind of NIC are you using, and what
> driver?
> You may also want to check out some compiled maxs. mbufs could be
> suspect, but I wouldn't think running out of mbufs would result in a
> freeze. What does netstat -m show?
>
I have two card (xl0 3com and ed0 RealTek). In emailing with someone outside
the questions group i have heared that i may cause my the droping of my pptp
connection. So i'm going to replace the card. See what that does.

Tanks,
Alex


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