Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 09:26:51 -0600 From: Damien Tougas <dtougas@converging.net> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Networking problems... Message-ID: <D1378A34D8E2D211831900105A99D3FE06D1AE@BDC>
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I sent this message out once before, but I'm not sure if it actually went out... Hello, We have been experiencing an ineteresting network problem, I'm not exactly sure what it is rooted in, but I thought I would ask around just in case it is related to somthing in FreeBSD. We have two servers directly connected to the internet through an ADSL connection, one is running FreeBSD 3.1, the other is running NT Server 4.0. The FreeBSD server is our internet http and mail server, the NT server is acting as a gateway to our internal network running Microsoft Proxy. Frequently (at least once a day) the FreeBSD server will lose contact with the outside world. What I mean by this is that nobody ouside of our subnet can access it, not even ping works. While this occurs, we can still ping the NT server from the outside (verifying that the ADSL still works), and we can still access the FreeBSD server from within the subnet without any problems. After an hour or so, the problem clears itself up and the FreeBSD server goes live again. I have noticed this happen on several occasions while using ssh to access the FreeBSD server from home. I would be working, lose my connection and no longer have any contact with the server for about an hour, then it would mysteriously reappear. We have also observed that when we lose outside contact with the server, if we reboot it, it comes back immediately, indicating that the problem is likely related to some server configuration issue. I know that this problem could be related to anything, but any insight that could be offered would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Damien Tougas Converging Technology Solutions, Inc. 10148 - 73 Street Edmonton, Alberta T6A 2W9 Phone: (780) 469-1679 Fax: (780) 461-5127 mailto:dtougas@converging.net http://www.converging.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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