From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 6 3: 5:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp01do.de.uu.net (smtp01do.de.uu.net [192.76.144.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58BF637B7FE for ; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 03:05:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rehsack@informatik.uni-halle.de) Received: from informatik.uni-halle.de ([195.124.230.62]) by smtp01do.de.uu.net (5.5.5/5.5.5) with ESMTP id MAA27074 for ; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 12:04:58 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <38EC6066.66D8AE2@informatik.uni-halle.de> Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 12:01:10 +0200 From: Jens Rehsack Organization: LiWing X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [de] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: connection problem: FreeBSD Computer does not respond Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Tancsa schrieb: > > At 02:18 AM 4/6/2000 +0200, Jens Rehsack wrote: > > >But since today morning I let the machine ping it's right neighbor(?). > >It works uninterrupted. > >But yesterday I tries to ping the machine if it doesn't send packets out > >by itself and it does not response. > > > >To say it again: > >1) If I boot the machine, it will not answer, but the NIC > >gets/recognizes the packets. > >2) If I send some data out (f.e. echo request, ns lookup), the machine > >answers packets for ca. 3 hours. > >3) Then it seems to be dead from world, but a look to the console shows: > >it's alive. > >4) GoTo 2 ':-) > > Well, my money would be something with the NIC. Perhaps it doesnt set its > media type correctly or its busted ? I dont know, but I would suspect it, > or the driver perhaps. Do you have another type of network card you can > try ? I am not familiar with the vx driver or how well it performs. I > generally stick to the Intel Etherexpress Pro and plain old NE2000 PCIs > when I need something very cheap. How can I "detect" how the NIC is configured (HDx,FDx,etc.)? "dmesg" doesn't show a message which contains this information. May the IRQ the unhappy (10)? Ciao -- Jens Rehsack --- http://www.informatik.uni-halle.de/~rehsack/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message