Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 20:14:01 +1000 (EST) From: dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, bruce@kit.net.au Subject: Re: Network problem... Message-ID: <199909081014.UAA23403@goblin.apana.org.au>
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I just noticed you are a fellow Australian :) I've had no end of funny problems like that in the past and always had the feeling it was server (ISP) related. Since moving from commercial ISP's to a non-profit organization I find I get very few of the weird problems that I could never resolve before. My setup is fairly similar to yours .... BSD gateway & Win98 workstations (plus one Solaris) and its very satisfactory now although I did receive HEAPS of assistance from the list to get it sorted out initially. If you are using MSIE5 that could be another cause of the trouble .... I've had a few problems with it going into a coma (happens in Win98 / NT4 / 2000 so its fairly obviously MSIE5 rather than the operating system) ... but with the BSD gateway running permanently I can fix MSIE5 by simply re-booting the offending gateway box. Another nasty trick all MSIE's play is the dreaded memory leak .... particularly if they've been running for a few days continuously .... again the fixes tha twork for me are to shut that service down and re-start (NT) or re-boot (Win9x) ----- Original Message ----- From: Bruce Piper <bruce@kit.net.au> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 1999 1:10 AM Subject: Network problem... > Hi there > I'm using a FreeBSD box (version 2.2.8-RELEASE (GENERIC)) as a router from our office (win98 workstations) to an ISP dedicated modem. > The FreeBSD box and all the workstations have their own IP addresses. >The FreeBSD box has an internal modem (com 3) which is connected using >user-ppp (ppp -auto demand) to the ISP modem, and allows everyone in the >office to surf etc. It's setup so it doesn't time out. I'm also in the process of >setting it up as a web server, mail server etc. However, I'm finding that >every now and then (?a couple of times a day) it stops communicating. The >debugging I've done so far is as follows: I've got a pppctl server running, >so by doing set log local async I can verify that I am definitely sending stuff >out the lin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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