Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 16:33:27 -0800 (PST) From: Danial Thom <danial_thom@yahoo.com> To: brent <brent@jeneral.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ethernet Interface haywire ??? Message-ID: <20060216003327.84264.qmail@web33307.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <200602160011.k1G0B04O049104@mickey.jensenet.com>
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I've seen it happen when the ethernet device gets a bus error and throws it into some strange state. I've seen it mostly with on-board intel devices (fxp), but thats what we use mostly so it may not be part specific. DT --- brent <brent@jeneral.com> wrote: > Has anyone run into this scenario where a BSD > Box (RELENG_5_4) takes down > the whole subnet for only FreeBSD boxes. > Here’s the scenario: One of my > web servers goes into a crazy state which kills > all traffic on the network > for only FreeBSD boxes. Linux boxes can talk > to other linux boxes, but > FreeBSD boxes are dead. You can ping a FreeBSD > box (from linux) but services > such as SSH go half-way and never completely > connect. Other services such as > http don’t work either. Rebooting that > offending box fixes the problem. > I’ve seen this once it a great moon; however, > it recently happened two > days in a row. Any suggestions would be > appreciated. I have other > RELENG_5_4 and RELENG_6_0 boxes that don’t > seem to be the culprit, as well > as an identical hardware box running > RELENG_6_0. Thanks. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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