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Date:      Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:26:30 -0700
From:      Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Aniruddha <mailing_list@orange.nl>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Under heavy load internet gets killed, only a reboot can bring it back up
Message-ID:  <20081015072630.GA70901@icarus.home.lan>
In-Reply-To: <1224054780.4011.20.camel@debian>
References:  <1224054780.4011.20.camel@debian>

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On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 09:13:00AM +0200, Aniruddha wrote:
> Each time  my internet connection is under heavy lead it gets killed
> after a minute of 10. I tried the following commands to get the internet
> back up, but nothing helped:
> 
> /etc/rc.d/netif restart
> ifconfig mynic down
> ifconfig mynic up
> 
> Even worse the last time I issued a '/etc/rc.d/netif restart' my whole
> system hardlocked (wasn't responding to capslock presses). So far the
> only solution has been te reboot the computer. Is there any way I can
> prevent my internet connection from getting killed? How do I get it back
> up after it has been killed? Thanks in advance!

What network card are you using?  Can you provide output from the
following commands?

dmesg
vmstat -i
netstat -in

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