Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2016 00:30:33 +0200 From: "Dutch Ingraham" <stoa@gmx.us> To: "Manish Jain" <bourne.identity@hotmail.com> Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Losing network connectivity - Is there a virus on my system ? Message-ID: <trinity-481fc5b0-9a2f-41a9-b5f1-69a48d04f8f6-1469485833606@3capp-mailcom-bs08> In-Reply-To: <VI1PR02MB097438151662BE0EA1696382D10D0@VI1PR02MB0974.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com> References: <VI1PR02MB097438151662BE0EA1696382D10D0@VI1PR02MB0974.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com>
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> Sent: Monday, July 25, 2016 at 12:54 PM > From: "Manish Jain" <bourne.identity@hotmail.com> > To: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> > Cc: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> > Subject: Losing network connectivity - Is there a virus on my system ? > > Hi, > > I am using FreeBSD 10.2 amd64, with Win XP as a backup OS. Since > yesterday, I am experiencing a strange situation. Internet connectivity is > lost every 10-15 minutes. 'ping www.freebsd.org' starts reporting 100% > packet loss. If I run 'service netif restart', ping reports "No route to > host". > > The only way to fix the problem is to reboot into XP where internet works > okay. Then I reboot into FreeBSD, where things are okay too - for 10 or > minutes, after which the story gets played again. > > Is it possible that somebody has hacked my system to place some malicious > code somewhere to make the system behave like this ? Or is somebody on the > ISP's side doing funny things to bring my internet down ? > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. Sounds like a timeout; have you checked whether there is a re-leasing problem (if you are using dhcp, that is)?
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