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Date:      Wed, 25 Sep 1996 22:44:40 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Network Coordinator <nc@ai.net>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Machines disapearing from the Net? (fwd)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960925224420.2756B-100000@alyssa.ai.net>

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We have two new machines that are moving a fair amount of traffic. Each 
is doing about 50GB/day in transfers or about 30 request/s under a 
modified Apache 1.1.1 under FreeBSD 2.1.5 and 2.2-SNAP-08-01-96

One representative machine is configured with 512MB of RAM and a P6-200 
processor. It has plenty of MBUF clusters free [is only using about 5660 of 
8192] and has 11805 Kbytes (51%) allocated to the network at a low period. 

One had been running for about 3 weeks and the other only a few days, yet 
both are disapearing from the net every so often. They return with a 
simple ifconfig vx0 up [even though the port is never listed as down].

When trying to ping from these machines in the "down" state, they report 
that "no buffer space is available" which could be a result of the port 
being considered "down". 

One is using an Intel Etherpower 10/100Mbit PCI and other [as above is 
using a 3Com-3C595TX PCI].

We have not seen this problem since 2.0.5-SNAP-02-02-95, so the problem 
may have a different cause but the same symptom? 

We have other machines running 2.1.5 with about 4M hits/day that have not 
shown this problem [yet]. 

Any ideas?

Thanks for your time,

John Hubbel
American Information Network
Networking Power for People, Places and Ideas.





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