From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 24 16:29:26 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C0A316A4CE for ; Sat, 24 Jul 2004 16:29:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.revolutionsp.com (ganymede.revolutionsp.com [64.246.0.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EC7C43D45 for ; Sat, 24 Jul 2004 16:29:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from klr@6s-gaming.com) Received: from mail.revolutionsp.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.revolutionsp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E16C815CD4 for ; Sat, 24 Jul 2004 13:27:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: from 81.84.175.12 (SquirrelMail authenticated user klr@6s-gaming.com); by mail.revolutionsp.com with HTTP; Sat, 24 Jul 2004 13:27:17 -0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <53688.81.84.175.12.1090675637.squirrel@81.84.175.12> Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 13:27:17 -0000 (GMT) From: "Hugo Silva" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a X-Mailer: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Subject: Annoying 5.2.1 problem (em0 goes down) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 16:29:26 -0000 Hi folks, I have a Dual Xeon 2.8ghz w/ 4GB ram, 2x80GB hdd + 200GB hdd running FreeBSD 5.2.1-p9 on a em0 network card.Every once in awhile, em0 will simply die. These are the longs from the last time: Jul 22 18:15:15 rhea kernel: em0: Link is up 100 Mbps Full Duplex Jul 22 18:22:33 rhea kernel: em0: Link is Down I find it weird, 'link is up 100mbps full duplex' @ 18:15, because the system was up long ago before that message. As for the link is down message, that is self explanatory. It never came back again. I bet this is what happened this time too, will be sure when I get the datacenter to reboot the server. This always happens when I leave a ssh session idling for a long time. It would be normal for the ssh session to timeout because the dynamic rules on the firewall expire (assuming I didnt have keep alives), but the em0 interface goes down.. I am using the pf port instead of ipfw/ipfilter. I don't know if that has anything to do with it. Any ideas on what's causing this? Regards, Hugo