Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 11:56:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "Michael L. Farace" <mfarace@mindspring.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.2.6 - System disappearing off the network sometimes Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980611115438.800A-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19980611064525.02ff9bd4@pop.mindspring.com>
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On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Michael L. Farace wrote: > Ever since I have installed FreeBSD 2.2.6, the sytem disappears off the > network sometime, and you cannot ping or telnet to it - until some goes and > reboots it! > > any clue? It has a 3C905 NIC I belive, and is using the driver vx0. Try going into the 3c905's setup program and forcing the link type. Your network cabling may be flakey enough to trick the card into trying to renegotiate the speed. You don't have to reboot the machine tho, you should be able to do ifconfig vx0 down ifconfig vx0 up to resurrect it. The vx driver isn't in that great a shape right now, unfortunately, so it could have some bugs. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major NOTICE: Make sure your mailer replies to dwhite@resnet or I won't get it! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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