On Saturday 03 February 2007 17:03, Craig FALCONER wrote: > As already suggested - pop it on a UPS,
don't have one > change the flylead, change to > another port on the switch. > > Also, try running memtest86 for a while, all good ideas thanks. > and do something CPU intensive > like compiling. > compiled libtorrent/rtorrent recently they are c++ and take a while. No apparent detriment. > Can you change or add another NIC ? yes I could. *Nick looks at the back of the box* actually it used to be my office ipcop box so it has another NIC already. D'oh. I'll try switching to that, if I can figure out the freebsd magic to do it ;-) > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, 3 February 2007 4:22 p.m. > To: [email protected] > Subject: FreeBSD help? Network freezing > > > I have a Compaq SFF P3 with FreeBSD 6.1. > > It has an intel chipset including an inbuilt network card. The network runs > with the e100 module in linux, and the fxp driver in freebsd. > > The machine is fairly busy constantly bittorrenting, but it should hardly > be > > taxing it, it having a 100M network card and torrenting to my 256k/128k > scummy connection to the wide world. > > Trouble is the network keeps dropping out, and seems to require a reboot to > make it work again. ssh and bittorrent and ping and anything else stop. > ifconfig reveals no apparent change - ie the network is still apparently > configured with an IP address etc.Luckily I have it attached to a KVM so I > can get into it to reboot, as of course ssh stops working. > > This happens at random intervals, sometimes going fine for a week, then > doing > it again within a couple of hours of reboot. > > There is nothing in dmesg, nor anything in any of the files in /var/log > that > > give me any clue at all how to diagnose further. The only warning is that > the > ssh session dies and the box will not respond to anything. > > The box does nothing else except occasionally serving up content to the > media > PC via samba. Its load average is pretty low. Drop outs do not seem to > correspond to any extra load. > > I have googled, to no avail.
