Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 02:55:34 +0200 From: Jens Rehsack <rehsack@informatik.uni-halle.de> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: connection problem: FreeBSD Computer does not respond Message-ID: <38EA8F06.7E09594D@informatik.uni-halle.de> References: <38EA7F40.FE128093@informatik.uni-halle.de> <20000404172309.V20770@fw.wintelcom.net> <38EA84C5.73EC3E1A@informatik.uni-halle.de> <20000404175445.X20770@fw.wintelcom.net>
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Alfred Perlstein schrieb: > > * Jens Rehsack <rehsack@informatik.uni-halle.de> [000404 17:41] wrote: > > > > > > Alfred Perlstein schrieb: > > > > > > * Jens Rehsack <rehsack@informatik.uni-halle.de> [000404 17:19] wrote: > > > > Hi! > > > > > > > > I'm a FreeBSD "newbie" (you would call it so, wouldn't you?), and I have > > > > installed > > > > a machine with FreeBSD 3.4 (distribution from Walnut Creek CDROM). > > > > The system works fine, except that the system doesn't answer for any > > > > ip-requests > > > > (ECHO REQ., FTP-Connect, NFS-Connect) before I didn't ping a machine. > > > > which machine > > > > that is makes no different. > > > > When I've pinged a machine, the system will answer incoming packets for > > > > half an > > > > hour (or so), and the theater begins again... > > > > > > > > outgoing connection I can start from this machine without any problems. > > > > What may the reason for such an incredible behavior? > > > > > > I would try upgrading to 3-stable, see: > > > http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/cutting-edge.html > > I think my 3.4-stable is the most current version? > > No, if you've installed from CDrom then you have 3.4-RELEASE, some time > has passed since the release and various fixes have been put into the > source since then, read the URL i sent you and do the upgrade, it may > help. Ok. I'm just downloading ftp://.../FreeBSD-STABLE/src/sys.tar.gz I hope it will work :-) > > > > > In the future it's much more helpful if you can include such > > > information as which ethernet card you're using and perhaps > > > what other system components you have installed as well as > > > the motherboard type. > > > > The system is an i486DX2-66, > > HiNT motherboard (EISA), Y2K compliant > > 32MB RAM (8x4MB) > > eth0 => vx0 => 3c597 (3Com Fast-Etherlink III - EISA) > > it looks like guido@freebsd.org is the writer/maintainer of the driver, > you may want to toss him an mail directly and describe the problem. I don't think that it's a problem with the ethernet card, because the computer seems to receive the packets. I will try an tcpdump to check, but I'm sure... :-) > > disk-controller: AHA-2742AT (twin-channel aic7xxx compatible with floppy > > port) > > two scsi-disks (both id0, on different channels) > > yamaha cdr-200 on id 1, channel B (primary) > > Spea-V7 1MB VL vga card > > 8-bit I/O-card for mouse > > > > Lastly, are you sure you don't have some sort of power-management > or APM on? I'm kinda grasping at straws here, but 30 minutes seems > to be a nice round number for APM/power-management. As sure as I could be. I didn't tried to setup the computer with the dos-based AMI-SETUP program, so that I don't have seen all options, but in the official parts I didn't recognize sth. about APM. Therefore, the computer answers all packets, if I run a ping fw (firewall machine in LAN) on it. The only problem is after boot (it starts not to answering before I've send a packet out) And it seems I've lied - now my ping on it runs for 2 hours and runs again. But last time, I was for 2 weeks in holiday, I've runned a ping and this ping stops getting answers after ca. 9000 send packets. (ca. 4 hours) > -- > -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] > "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." Ciao -- Jens Rehsack --- <rehsack@informatik.uni-halle.de> http://www.informatik.uni-halle.de/~rehsack/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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