From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Jun 20 17:30:36 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA29395 for isp-outgoing; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 17:30:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from post.io.org (post.io.org [198.133.36.6]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA29390 for ; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 17:30:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zap.io.org (taob@zap.io.org [198.133.36.81]) by post.io.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA09301; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 20:27:54 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 20:28:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Tao To: FREEBSD-ISP-L , Greg Rowe cc: angio@aros.net Subject: Re: Computer disappears from the network, then reappears...? In-Reply-To: <9606111118.ZM23888@nevis.oss.uswest.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 11 Jun 1996, Greg Rowe wrote: > > We've seen a similar problem on 4 different systems in the last couple > weeks. Three were running 2.1 Release and one running -Current. All > three use the SMC EtherPower card. The symptoms were that system > appeared to be running fine, but you couldn't telnet, ping, etc. into > the box. Okay, I've started seeing this on my 2.2-960501 workstation, after six weeks of perfectly good behaviour. In fact, it hung on me three times in the past two days. 'ifconfig de0 down ; ifconfig de0 up' clears things up, as someone had suggested. I haven't tried pinging it from another server yet. None of our Internet servers have been afflicted with this problem, and they are also running the same OS release, using the same model of SMC EtherPower cards bought both some months before and after the one in my workstation. I don't know if there is any correlation to a chip- or board-level revision on these SMC's. -- Brian Tao (BT300, taob@io.org, taob@ican.net) Systems and Network Administrator, Internet Canada Corp. "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"