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Date:      Thu, 20 Jun 1996 18:12:37 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@cdsnet.net>
To:        Brian Tao <taob@io.org>
Cc:        FREEBSD-ISP-L <freebsd-isp@freebsd.org>, Greg Rowe <greg@uswest.net>, angio@aros.net
Subject:   Re: Computer disappears from the network, then reappears...?
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.92.960620181041.27464Y-100000@schizo.cdsnet.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.92.960620202227.28595g-100000@zap.io.org>

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Me too, but I fix it by killing and restarting routed.  The down-up
ifconfig didn't work.  I've logged the routed output, and don't see
anything going on, I just lose all connectivity.  It's happened a few
times in the last couple days now.

I'm running -stable, booted about a 40 days or so ago.

On Thu, 20 Jun 1996, Brian Tao wrote:

> 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"
>




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