I've seen it happen when the ethernet device gets a bus error and throws it into some strange state. I've seen it mostly with on-board intel devices (fxp), but thats what we use mostly so it may not be part specific.
DT --- brent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone run into this scenario where a BSD > Box (RELENG_5_4) takes down > the whole subnet for only FreeBSD boxes. > Hereâs the scenario: One of my > web servers goes into a crazy state which kills > all traffic on the network > for only FreeBSD boxes. Linux boxes can talk > to other linux boxes, but > FreeBSD boxes are dead. You can ping a FreeBSD > box (from linux) but services > such as SSH go half-way and never completely > connect. Other services such as > http donât work either. Rebooting that > offending box fixes the problem. > Iâve seen this once it a great moon; however, > it recently happened two > days in a row. Any suggestions would be > appreciated. I have other > RELENG_5_4 and RELENG_6_0 boxes that donât > seem to be the culprit, as well > as an identical hardware box running > RELENG_6_0. Thanks. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
