ethernet Interface haywire ???

2006-02-15 Thread brent
Has anyone run into this scenario where a BSD Box (RELENG_5_4) takes down the whole subnet for only FreeBSD boxes. Here’s 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

Re: ethernet Interface haywire ???

2006-02-15 Thread Danial Thom
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

Re: ethernet Interface haywire ???

2006-02-15 Thread brent
Thanks--the server has em (intel gigabit) nics. Have you seen this on any specific version of FreeBSD and *hopefully* not on others (e.g. RELENG_6_0)? Brent Danial Thom writes: I've seen it happen when the ethernet device gets a bus error and throws it into some strange state. I've seen it

Re: ethernet Interface haywire ???

2006-02-15 Thread Danial Thom
I wouldn't think that a bus error would have anything to do with the version of the OS. If the hardware gets hosed, its likely to do almost anything. --- brent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks--the server has em (intel gigabit) nics. Have you seen this on any specific version of FreeBSD and