Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 19:14:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Jim Freeze <jim@freeze.org> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Help: Mysterious network hangs Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005231907220.6479-100000@web2.sea.nwserv.com>
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I am using FBSD 3.4R and am setup with @home cable network. I have had this setup for about a week and things were mostly fine. But yesterday, I started getting network hangs (netscape 4.72 was running in each case). I believe that netscape is the culprate, but I am not sure why. No-one else has reported this problem, so maybe I have a bad config somewhere. Anyway, when it occurs, all network activity seems to stop. Cannot ping anything (but localhost) and netstat stops after the first line of output. I thought the problem might be with @home, but they were no help on the phone - once they found out I was not on a windows box their brain froze up. I can solve the problem by rebooting fbsd. One time it only worked for about 1 minute after rebooting. One time it worked for about 1 hour after rebooting. One thing I don't like is that I have to reboot. I shouldn't have to reboot - is that right? One time I was able to recover by performing: killall -HUP swapper inetd but since it has not consistently worked, I am thinking it was a coincidence (self fixing problem if I wait long enough) or I am close to solving the problem but have not pinpointed it. Is there some test that I can perform to monitor the health of my network? Does anyone have a clue as to why this is happening? Thanks ============================================ Jim Freeze jim@freeze.org www.freeze.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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