On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 11:08:43AM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a server in a host service that stopped this morning. After a > contact with the service support of them, I got the following answer to the > problem: > > [quote] > REBOOT SERVER > > Due to a failed switch replacement FreeBSD did not restore the network > link. This is a farly common issue with FreeBSD. > > I restarted the server and it should be back online shortly. > [end quote] > > It's a P4-3GHz, with the following, probably on-board, ether card: > vr0: <VIA VT6102 Rhine II 10/100BaseTX> port 0xcc00-0xccff mem > 0xfdffe000-0xfdffe0ff irq 23 at device 18.0 on pci0 > > Is this a really known problem? Is there anything I can do to avoid > reboot? > I have some (local) servers with FBSD and never had such problem. > > - Marcelo >
Just a guess - are you using autonegotiation on this NIC? Try to set media type manually using 'media' and 'mediaopt' ifconfig' flags. Yuri
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