From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 27 13:54:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.wmptl.com (mail2.wmptl.com [216.221.73.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F1AF37BB50 for ; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 13:53:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from webmaster@wmptl.com) Received: from wmptl.com ([10.0.0.168]) by mail2.wmptl.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA40752; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 17:11:41 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from webmaster@wmptl.com) Message-ID: <395913E7.499D1D26@wmptl.com> Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 16:51:52 -0400 From: Nathan Vidican X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jon Repaci Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Network hangs when switching from 10 BT shared hub to 10/100 BT autosensing switch References: <02ef01bfe04f$67180990$3214000a@IRONWOOD> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jon Repaci wrote: > > When switching over two versions of FreeBSD (3.0-RELEASE and 2.2.6-RELEASE) > on an internal network from 10baseT shared hubs to 10/100baseT autosensing > switched ports, the network on each hangs. Upon reboot, it shows that it > has properly seen the network port 100BT full duplex and the network cards > show the 100 BT link light on: > > .... /kernel: xl1: autoneg complete, link status good (full-duplex, 100Mbps) > > Another characteristic is that the 3.0 machine hung the boot around > configuring sendmail (probably because the network wasn't working). > > Any help is appreciated for this weird side effect. > > Jon > > +-------------------------------+ > | Jonathan.Repaci@entegrity.com | > | Systems Administrator | > | Entegrity Solutions | > | 10500 Little Patuxent Pkwy | > | Suite 550 | > | Columbia, MD 21044 | > | 410-992-7600 x3018 | > | HTTP://entegrity.com | > +-------------------------------+ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message Try forcing media rather than auto-sensing it. Some autosensing hubs will flip bay and forth from the NIC's attached to them; try something similar to this: ifconfig xl1 inet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx netmask xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx media 100BaseT I've had this problem with several PCI realtek-chipset'd cards, (rl#'s), and just forcing the media one way or another usually fixes it. -- Nathan Vidican webmaster@wmptl.com Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd. http://www.wmptl.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message