Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1996 18:45:54 -0400 From: Patrick Ferguson <patrick@chloe.dmv.com> To: Steve Reid <root@edmweb.com> Cc: <isp@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Computer disappears from the network, then reappears...? Message-ID: <XFMail.960604184551.patrick@chloe.dmv.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960529143945.145A-100000@bitbucket.edmweb.com>
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On Thu May 30 00:30:25 1996 Steve Reid wrote: >>This is strange... Has anyone else seen this happen? > >Last night one of the machines I admin, spock.edmweb.com [204.244.190.2] >went down, or so it seemed. I (inside the LAN) was unable to ping Spock, and >another person outside was also unable to ping that machine. > >I went to the console today fully expecting I would have to reboot the >machine, but when I got there everything was fine... It had never actually >gone down. uptime showed it had never crashed and/or rebooted. All of the >processes were still running. The log files showed nothing out of the >ordinary, and syslog had placed it's mark messages at the proper >intervals. > >It appears as though the machine lost it's network connection (ethernet) >then got it back... netstat -in shows a few hundred 'Oerrors' which seems >to confirm that the network connection was lost. > >The machine is a 16-meg Pentium 100 with Asus Triton motherboard and >SCSI-II hard drive on an Adaptec 2940. The ethernet card is an SMC >EtherPower 10/100 in 10 mbps (standard ethernet) mode. There is a Cyclades >Cyclom 8yo installed, which is not really being used yet. Running FreeBSD >2.1.0-RELEASE with the /sys/netinet/in_rmx.c from -stable to correct the >Proxy ARP bug. > >The only thing the machine was really doing at the time was hosting the >Chatnet IRC bots. The bots disappeared from IRC, and when the connection >came back they were still gone from IRC, but their proccesses were still >running. > >I would guess maybe this is an ARP problem, but I don't know. I've never >seen it happen before. Has anyone else seen this? > > >===================================================================== >| Steve Reid - SysAdmin & Pres, EDM Web (http://www.edmweb.com/) | >| Email: steve@edmweb.com Home Page: http://www.edmweb.com/steve/ | >| PGP (2048/9F317269) Fingerprint: 11C89D1CD67287E68C09EC52443F8830 | >| -- Disclaimer: JMHO, YMMV, TANSTAAFL, IANAL. -- | >===================================================================:)
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