S. Aeschbacher wrote: > Hal Snyder wrote: > > [snip] > >>Sounds as if the MAC of the upstream provider occasionally changes. >>Don't know enough about cable to understand it better, and problem is >>gone now so can't check for sure. >> > As far as my cases are concerned, the MAC address does not change. When > the arp entry is deleted, the same MAC of the gateway is inserted into > the arp table.
Actually, it sounds like your provider actively mucks with the link after a certain time - are these "residential" pipes? If so, they may do that to prevent you from running servers. In any case, I'd be surprised if this really was a FreeBSD issue; I really think it's the provider doing something weird. (And on Windows you'll never see the problem, since you typically reboot more frequently than every 10 hours anyway... :-) Lars -- Lars Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Information Sciences Institute http://www.isi.edu/larse/ University of Southern California To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
