Hello Scott,

> You might want to check /var/log/messages for any errors.

Nothing there.

> Check the output of 'top' to see what processes are running.

All the processes were the usual, none of them was taking too many
resources.

>Check the output of 'netstat -an -f inet'
>to see how many network connections are being used

I'll try that one next time.

>Are there any other proceses running (apache etc)

Just postfix and apcupsd to monitor the UPS battery level.

>Maybe a 'tcpdump' will be usefull to see what network traffic
>is being generated etc.

I'll try that too next time.

>Do you have any entries in /etc/crontab that starts something
>when the problems happen ?? a backup maybe

No, no crontab processes were scheduled at the time that the problem
happened. Is happening when we have heavy SMTP incoming traffic but it
doesn't look more than other days.

>What version of freedsb is running (uname -a)

FreeBSD mx1.scbbs-bo.com 4.7-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE #0: Wed Oct  9
15:08:34 GMT 2002

>what are the settings for your network card. It may be helpful
>to configure the speed and duplex settings on both the 
>server and the switch if possible.

I didn't touch the standard setting, I don't even know how to, probably
they are set to AUTO in FreeBSD, the switch is not manageable so the
only option is AUTO too.

>Are you using a firewall on the server (IPFILTER, IPFIREWALL ??)

Nop.

Thank you very much for your input.

Adolfo Justiniano
Santa Cruz BBS
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.scbbs.net 

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