HELP!! problem with new bsd mail server [solved kind of]</TITL= E> </HEAD> <BODY> Hey everyone, I solved the immediate problem but I still need a long term solution. = ;Basically I disabled the second ethernet card and everything looks good rig= ht now. I am still looking for a better way to do this though. O= ptimally I would like the second card to be ready to go if the first one fai= ls. I guess going into bios and enabling the card isn’t such a b= ig deal, but I would like a more seamless way. Thanks Brendan ----------- Hello I have a very weird problem going on with my new BSD qmail server. The machine has two ethernet cards, running FreeBSD 4.4. I think I se= t up the ethernet configuration incorrectly, or my machine is seriously brok= en. Here is what happens. The machine runs without problems for long stre= tches of time. Then, all of a sudden, it goes deaf to network connecti= ons. It seems to be some sort of conflict or something. The mach= ine can’t ping the switch its connected to. Tonight, the machine resorts to this behavior immediately after startup. &n= bsp;Every once in a while I can’t get 3 or 4 pings through to it. I’ve deleted the ip address configuration I set up on the ethernet in= terfaces. Could someone direct me to the best way to configure these cards? Sho= uld I use ifconfig or just edit the rc.conf file, or both? Also, how s= hould I set up the cards? One interface down? OR can I give them= both the same IP for redundancy. Lastly, would this even be the root of the problem, or would some sort of h= ardware problem do this? Thanks Brendan Ps. I’ve already tried switching ports on the switch, moving the mach= ine to a new switch, and switching the ethernet cable. The problem lie= s on the machine. </BODY> </HTML> --B_3099077181_6030645-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 15 19:45:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.macconnect.com (mail.macconnect.com [204.68.168.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A9DBE37B400 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 19:45:39 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 77135 invoked by uid 0); 16 Mar 2002 03:51:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.0.1.7?) (24.168.28.19) by mail.macconnect.com with SMTP; 16 Mar 2002 03:51:07 -0000 User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.0.0.1331 Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 22:46:19 -0500 Subject: HELP!! problem with new bsd mail server [solved kind of] From: Brendan McAlpine To: Message-ID: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: multipart/alternative; boundary="B_3099077181_6030645" 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 > This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. --B_3099077181_6030645 Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Hey everyone, I solved the immediate problem but I still need a long term solution. Basically I disabled the second ethernet card and everything looks good right now. I am still looking for a better way to do this though. Optimally I would like the second card to be ready to go if the first one fails. I guess going into bios and enabling the card isn=B9t such a big deal= , but I would like a more seamless way. Thanks Brendan ----------- Hello I have a very weird problem going on with my new BSD qmail server. The machine has two ethernet cards, running FreeBSD 4.4. I think I set up the ethernet configuration incorrectly, or my machine is seriously broken. Here is what happens. The machine runs without problems for long stretches of time. Then, all of a sudden, it goes deaf to network connections. It seems to be some sort of conflict or something. The machine can=B9t ping the switch its connected to. Tonight, the machine resorts to this behavior immediately after startup. Every once in a while I can=B9t get 3 or 4 pings through to it. I=B9ve deleted the ip address configuration I set up on the ethernet interfaces. =20 Could someone direct me to the best way to configure these cards? Should I use ifconfig or just edit the rc.conf file, or both? Also, how should I se= t up the cards? One interface down? OR can I give them both the same IP for redundancy. Lastly, would this even be the root of the problem, or would some sort of hardware problem do this? Thanks Brendan Ps. I=B9ve already tried switching ports on the switch, moving the machine to a new switch, and switching the ethernet cable. The problem lies on the machine. --B_3099077181_6030645 Content-type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable HELP!! problem with new bsd mail server [solved kind of]</TITL= E> </HEAD> <BODY> Hey everyone, I solved the immediate problem but I still need a long term solution. = ;Basically I disabled the second ethernet card and everything looks good rig= ht now. I am still looking for a better way to do this though. O= ptimally I would like the second card to be ready to go if the first one fai= ls. I guess going into bios and enabling the card isn’t such a b= ig deal, but I would like a more seamless way. Thanks Brendan ----------- Hello I have a very weird problem going on with my new BSD qmail server. The machine has two ethernet cards, running FreeBSD 4.4. I think I se= t up the ethernet configuration incorrectly, or my machine is seriously brok= en. Here is what happens. The machine runs without problems for long stre= tches of time. Then, all of a sudden, it goes deaf to network connecti= ons. It seems to be some sort of conflict or something. The mach= ine can’t ping the switch its connected to. Tonight, the machine resorts to this behavior immediately after startup. &n= bsp;Every once in a while I can’t get 3 or 4 pings through to it. I’ve deleted the ip address configuration I set up on the ethernet in= terfaces. Could someone direct me to the best way to configure these cards? Sho= uld I use ifconfig or just edit the rc.conf file, or both? Also, how s= hould I set up the cards? One interface down? OR can I give them= both the same IP for redundancy. Lastly, would this even be the root of the problem, or would some sort of h= ardware problem do this? Thanks Brendan Ps. I’ve already tried switching ports on the switch, moving the mach= ine to a new switch, and switching the ethernet cable. The problem lie= s on the machine. </BODY> </HTML> --B_3099077181_6030645-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message