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Date:      Sat, 11 Oct 1997 11:35:45 -0500
From:      Raul Zighelboim <mango@staff.communique.net>
To:        "'hackers@freefall.freebsd.org'" <hackers@freefall.freebsd.org>
Subject:   fxp0 lost connectivity!
Message-ID:  <A03CD00C69B1D01195AB00A024ECEB163E0AD0@kaori.communique.net>

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Hello there!

I have this system running 2.2.2-RELEASE + Patches, were patches:
	- allow for 512 Megs of Ram
	- if_fxp.c    1997/06/13 07:45:42
	- ahc (and scsi): $Id: aic7870.c,v 1.53 1997/06/27 19:39:34
gibbs Exp $

This system has been working very nicely for over a month now: # uptime
11:25AM  up 46 days,  2:34, 1 user, load averages: 0.78, 0.78, 0.83

And the ethernet interface has been quite busy:# netstat -ni
Name  Mtu   Network       Address            Ipkts          Ierrs
Opkts           Oerrs     Coll
fxp0  1500  <Link>      00.a0.c9.66.eb.72 925583797 533386 926780807
2            37893832

then, last night, the server went down :-(
Actualy, It did not go down, but the ethernet interface went down.
Loggin into the console port and doing 'ifconfig fxp0 up' fixed the
problem.  Otherwise, everything on the system looks alright, and the
only error found on the log files (I log everything) is a lot of:

xntpd[86]: sendto(204.27.65.10): No route to host
and similar for other running services...

So: is this a known problem ?
How do I fix it ?
What should I look at if it happens again (hardly, as I am running
ifconfig from crontab every */5 now),
Could bad input packets bring the interface down ?

Thanks.






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