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#! rnews 2436 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!swidir.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!surfnet.nl!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!news.pbi.net!news5.crl.com!nexp.crl.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Random system freezes - only when net attached? Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 09:11:25 -0800 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 32 Message-ID: <3325923D.500F9F30@FreeBSD.org> References: <332550B7.7081@goldcominc.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-GAMMA i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:36911 Lorraine Goldeck wrote: > Trying to put a 486DX33 to work as an Inet gateway for a small LAN - I > installed FreeBSD 2.2-215GAMMA (for the ppp -alias) and everything was > working great for the many hours I was setting up. Then I connected > another PC (Win95) via the generic NE2000 (that was installed and > apparently fine) on ed0. It will work great for 1-5 minutes, ppp aliased > Internet and all, but inevitably it will lock up without a burp. If I > remove the LAN connection it's solid as a rock. Hmmmm. It does sound as if you've found a bug. When you say "it will lock up" do you also mean the entire machine goes (e.g. it's truly dead and cannot be pinged or logged into from the console) or just its outgoing ppp connection or... ? > NE2000 (I tried the ones I had, all the same) or wait to see how > 2.2RELEASE fares? Anything I'm missing? I'd be very happy with a "RTM" > at this point if you could just clue me to the right "M"! Appreciate any > help... Well, it may be that 2.2 behaves exactly the same way for you if we don't find and fix this before it goes out, that being why we're having this GAMMA cycle, after all. :-) You really should have send-pr'd us at the first sign of problems. In any case, if you could answer my questions above about the extent of the hang, we can hopefully go further with this. Also, don't try to do this over NEWS - the latency is simply too long (my server often doesn't get articles until a week or more after the posting date). Send us mail at questions@freebsd.org (which I read) and we'll take it from there. -- - Jordan Hubbard FreeBSD core team / Walnut Creek CDROM.