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Date:      Sat, 08 Nov 1997 18:40:48 +0000
From:      David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
To:        Wes Peters <softweyr@xmission.com>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Hard wiring media type on de0 driver. 
Message-ID:   <9711081840.aa04247@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 07 Nov 1997 21:29:09 MST." <199711080429.VAA25638@obie.softweyr.ml.org> 

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> Nope, they'll shut off anytime you lose the connectivity.  I don't think
> they actually switched; "ifconfig de0 up" will bring them back also.
> I'd suggest either a better hub (90 seconds to restart a hub?) or a UPS
> for your network stack.  I have suggestions on quality networking
> components if you're in the market.  ;^)

Its actually a Cisco Catalyst 2500 - We were given them 'cos
they have a nasty bug if you have TCP/IP turned on. On the whole
they are fine. I'm not actually sure why it fell over - I don't
think it was a power problem.

Maybe I should put a "ifconfig de0 media UTP" in cron....

	David.



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