From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 6 2:15:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp01do.de.uu.net (smtp01do.de.uu.net [192.76.144.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16E9037B9F0 for ; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 02:15:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rehsack@informatik.uni-halle.de) Received: from informatik.uni-halle.de ([195.124.230.62]) by smtp01do.de.uu.net (5.5.5/5.5.5) with ESMTP id LAA24855; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 11:15:37 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <38EC54D6.98D24BC4@informatik.uni-halle.de> Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 11:11:50 +0200 From: Jens Rehsack Organization: LiWing X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [de] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Tancsa , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: connection problem: FreeBSD Computer does not respond References: <38EA7F40.FE128093@informatik.uni-halle.de> <20000404172309.V20770@fw.wintelcom.net> <38eab248.7085097@mail.sentex.net> <4.2.2.20000405074454.0368cdf8@mail.sentex.net> <4.2.2.20000405210130.036af008@mail.sentex.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Tancsa schrieb: > > At 02:18 AM 4/6/2000 +0200, Jens Rehsack wrote: > > >But since today morning I let the machine ping it's right neighbor(?). > >It works uninterrupted. > >But yesterday I tries to ping the machine if it doesn't send packets out > >by itself and it does not response. > > > >To say it again: > >1) If I boot the machine, it will not answer, but the NIC > >gets/recognizes the packets. > >2) If I send some data out (f.e. echo request, ns lookup), the machine > >answers packets for ca. 3 hours. > >3) Then it seems to be dead from world, but a look to the console shows: > >it's alive. > >4) GoTo 2 ':-) > > Well, my money would be something with the NIC. Perhaps it doesnt set its > media type correctly or its busted ? I dont know, but I would suspect it, > or the driver perhaps. Do you have another type of network card you can > try ? I am not familiar with the vx driver or how well it performs. I > generally stick to the Intel Etherexpress Pro and plain old NE2000 PCIs > when I need something very cheap. :-) It's an EISA based motherboard. I will try an ISA based card. -- Jens Rehsack --- http://www.informatik.uni-halle.de/~rehsack/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message