Re: Loosing Ethernet Connectivity

2007-01-22 Thread Derek Ragona
Check your card's firmware, most by default are set to sleep on inactivity. Make sure your's isn't set to do this. -Derek At 09:12 PM 1/21/2007, David Schulz wrote: Hello all, every once in a while i have a machine (6.1) that out of the blue, sometimes after days, some after 6

Re: Loosing Ethernet Connectivity

2007-01-21 Thread David Schulz
Hey, sure, i can do a script which does the up-down when it cant ping the router or something, but to be honest i think that is not a production solution. cheap nic..maybe, some of the nics in question where onboard ones, which are not the best ones out there, but others, such as the

Re: Loosing Ethernet Connectivity

2007-01-21 Thread Richard Lynch
Sounds like flaky/cheap network card to me... [But I'm no expert] Perhaps, however, just doing a cron job every day to do the ifconfig down/up would be a simple work-around. On Sun, January 21, 2007 9:12 pm, David Schulz wrote: Hello all, every once in a while i have a machine (6.1) that out

Re: Loosing Ethernet Connectivity

2007-01-21 Thread applecom
What about firewall and especially ipfw MAC rules? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Loosing Ethernet Connectivity

2007-01-21 Thread David Schulz
since the machines in question are behind a nat router with firewall, they do not have extra firewall enabled. On Jan 22, 2007, at 11:56 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What about firewall and especially ipfw MAC rules? ___

Re: Loosing Ethernet Connectivity

2007-01-21 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Been there. You need to replace your ethernet switch. It's what they call an ethernet hardware incompatability. Forcing the card to 10baset half or 100 base t full might fix it but probably not. Ted . - Original Message - From: David Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Loosing Ethernet Connectivity

2007-01-21 Thread David Schulz
Hi, thats harsh, because before i used a cheaper Mitsubishi, forgot the Model, but before Christmas i purchased a Cisco ws-c2960-48tt-l , which i thought was not too bad for what i needed. I just cant replace it easily now. Really, is that it? Im gonna have to go with the cronjob / shell

Re: Loosing Ethernet Connectivity

2007-01-21 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
time to time to remind us the Universe has no fundamental logic Ted - Original Message - From: David Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2007 9:06 PM Subject: Re: Loosing Ethernet Connectivity Hi, thats harsh

Re: Loosing Ethernet Connectivity

2007-01-21 Thread bobmc
David Schulz wrote: Hello all, every once in a while i have a machine (6.1) that out of the blue, sometimes after days, some after 6 months, looses Ethernet Connectivity. When something is frequently erratic, suspect software. But your problem looks like intermittent hardware. I have

Re: Loosing Ethernet Connectivity

2007-01-21 Thread David Schulz
hey, sure, of course i have checked the cat5 first, but it is clearly not the cable. id say it is as ted has written. what i would like to know now is how exactly happens this hardware incompatibility? On Jan 22, 2007, at 1:51 PM, bobmc wrote: David Schulz wrote: Hello all, every once

Re: Loosing Ethernet Connectivity

2007-01-21 Thread Doug Hardie
On Jan 21, 2007, at 21:59, David Schulz wrote: hey, sure, of course i have checked the cat5 first, but it is clearly not the cable. id say it is as ted has written. what i would like to know now is how exactly happens this hardware incompatibility? The interface chips use a very low