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Date:      Sun, 19 Apr 1998 00:19:05 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Dima Dorfman <dima@apc.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Mount root partition and Network Problems
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980419001811.6766S-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980417184123.009543a0@mail.apc.net>

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On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, Dima Dorfman wrote:

> 2)  I'm having problems with me network.  It started after I built a new
> kernel.  I can connect to the machine, but it will never respond.  Example:
> I telnet into my POP3 server and it will connect, but will never come up
> with the welcome message ("QPOP 2.4 starting.....").  Another example: I
> telnet into the machine, and it just sits there, connected, with no login
> prompt.  The wiredest part, is that my DNS and ICMP(ping) work fine.  I
> doubt it's a firewall misconfiguration because it connects.  There is
> nothing on the console, or in any log files.  At first, I thought it was
> the new kernel, but I proved myself wrong, because my previous working
> kernel (which my night maintainence script copies to kernel.WORKING :-) and
> the generic kernel do the same thing.  Any suggestions?

Check your reverse lookup from the machine you were connecting from --
it'll wait a while waiting for the reverse DNS lookup to fail.  Also check
that your Ethernet card will send multiple packets.  Sending one packet at
a time is a sure sign of a IRQ misconfiguration.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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