From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Jun 20 18:18:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA02535 for isp-outgoing; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 18:18:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bitbucket.edmweb.com (bitbucket.edmweb.com [204.244.190.9]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA02517 for ; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 18:18:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from root@localhost) by bitbucket.edmweb.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id SAA00332; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 18:18:24 -0700 Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 18:18:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Steve Reid To: Brian Tao cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Computer disappears from the network, then reappears...? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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. It happened to me for a second time... The card died one night, came back up at around 5am and delivered the daily run output to our mail machine, then went down again. I went to the console to try to bring it back up, but I couldn't. 'ifconfig de0 down; ifconfig de0 up' wouldn't reset the card. Even shutting the whole computer off and back on didn't reset the card. Needless to say, we sent it back to the retailer, still under warranty. They plugged the card in and it worked, so they're sending it back to the manufacturer calling it an intermittent problem. Our other machine, with identical motherboard and identical SMC EtherPower 10/100 card, has not had any problems AFAICS. Both machines running FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE. I don't know if the address of the card means anything, but FWIW the address of the card we returned was 00:00:C0:09:94:C6 and the address of the card that works is 00:00:C0:F1:93:C6 ===================================================================== | 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. -- | ===================================================================:)