From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 27 05:58:26 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CFD216A420 for ; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 05:58:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ota@animenfo.com) Received: from smtp.vianet.ca (smtp.vianet.ca [209.91.128.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CB31543D49 for ; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 05:58:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ota@animenfo.com) Received: (qmail 19124 invoked from network); 27 Jan 2006 05:58:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.49?) (66.186.76.137) by smtp.vianet.ca with SMTP; 27 Jan 2006 05:58:24 -0000 Message-ID: <43D9B680.7080004@animenfo.com> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 00:58:24 -0500 From: Russell Doucette User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <43D98AB0.1040801@animenfo.com> <43D99326.1030905@rogers.com> In-Reply-To: <43D99326.1030905@rogers.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE Totally Freezes on TightVNC Connection X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 05:58:26 -0000 Mike Jakubik wrote: > Russell Doucette wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have this weird problem with FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE and I'm using it >> has a router between my cable modem and my LAN. I use the ipf >> firewall technology and have forwarded ports so I can use TightVNC to >> connect to my Windows XP machine from another location. However, >> after a few minutes or so of use, the BSD machine completely freezes >> (the keyboard freezes, the display freezes [no text updates when I >> was running a traffic analyzer], and all my network interfaces go >> dead). I have to physically turn off the machine and turn it back >> on. This only happens when I use TightVNC. > > It's either a hardware problem, or some serious issue with ipf. As a > side note, i would highly recommend you ditch ipf and switch to pf > instead, its a much better firewall. > Yeah, I fixed it. I switched network cards and the BSD box works fine now. It was either the network driver or the network card itself. Thanks for the help. R. Doucette