From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 16 7:52:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from earth.wnm.net (earth.wnm.net [208.246.240.243]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C3B514C48 for ; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 07:52:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from alex@wnm.net) Received: from localhost (alex@localhost) by earth.wnm.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA10094; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 09:52:05 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 09:52:05 -0600 (CST) From: Alex Charalabidis To: Nathaniel Schein Cc: Freebsd Questions Subject: Re: Networking Stops Working In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Nathaniel Schein wrote: > I have an installation of FreeBSD 3.2 and the networking justs stops working > from time to time. The server is not overloaded and the log files do not > show a problem. The console works fine but when I try to ping there is no > response. All remote connections are severed. I have to reboot to recover. > This server is a NIS Master, Primary DNS, repository of home directories and > runs AMD. Has anyone run into this problem before? > If it just "stops working" or throughput drops drastically for no apparent reason, I'd suspect a dying NIC first. Have you tried changing network cards? -ac -- ============================================================== Alex Charalabidis (AC8139) 5050 Poplar Ave, Ste 170 Systems Administrator Memphis, TN 38157 WebNet Memphis (901) 432 6000 ============================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message