Hi, I've been asked to clarify the topology of my system. Very simple setup. All I have is my home box connected to my ISP thru cable-modem. My NIC is a PCI NE2000 clone using the ed driver. My ISP uses DHCP to assign my IP, so I run dhclient at boot time from my rc.conf file. This setup has been running fine for me for over a year now. Even after my last cvsup/buildworld everything was still perfectly working. A few days ago, I started getting a situation where after a few minutes of operation (after boot), I can't reach anything, not even my default gateway (assigned by my ISP as part of DHCP). I've talked to my ISP's tech support rep, and he told me he could ping my box just fine ( 0% packet loss ), while I couldn't ping anything ( 100% packet loss ). I also noticed that even though I can't reach the outside world, I still see some syslogd messages about failed attempt to connect to my box (I have log_in_vain="YES" in rc.conf). Please see attached file for specifics of my system (kernel config file, dmesg output, uname -a, ps -ax etc...) I hope this clarifies the situation :-) Many thanks, Luc Morin
uname -a ouput: FreeBSD southpark.videotron.ca 4.2-STABLE FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE #0: Thu Jan 18 18:00:27 EST 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MYKERN4 i386 dmesg output Copyright (c) 1992-2001 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE #0: Thu Jan 18 18:00:27 EST 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MYKERN4 Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz CPU: Pentium III/Pentium III Xeon/Celeron (501.14-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x673 Stepping = 3 Features=0x383f9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE> real memory = 134201344 (131056K bytes) Invalid command or syntax. Type `?' for help. avail memory = 127844352 (124848K bytes) Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc02d7000. Preloaded userconfig_script "/boot/kernel.conf" at 0xc02d709c. Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled npx0: <math processor> on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface pcib0: <Intel 82443BX (440 BX) host to PCI bridge> on motherboard pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0 pcib1: <Intel 82443BX (440 BX) PCI-PCI (AGP) bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0 pci1: <PCI bus> on pcib1 pci1: <ATI Rage128-RF graphics accelerator> at 0.0 irq 11 isab0: <Intel 82371AB PCI to ISA bridge> at device 4.0 on pci0 isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0 atapci0: <Intel PIIX4 ATA33 controller> port 0xb800-0xb80f at device 4.1 on pci0 ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0 pci0: <Intel 82371AB/EB (PIIX4) USB controller> at 4.2 irq 5 chip1: <Intel 82371AB Power management controller> port 0xe800-0xe80f at device 4.3 on pci0 pcm0: <AudioPCI ES1370> port 0xb000-0xb03f irq 10 at device 10.0 on pci0 ed0: <NE2000 PCI Ethernet (RealTek 8029)> port 0xa800-0xa81f irq 5 at device 13.0 on pci0 ed0: address 00:e0:29:40:c0:4f, type NE2000 (16 bit) fdc0: <NEC 72065B or clone> at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0 fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0 atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0 atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> irq 1 on atkbdc0 psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0 psm0: model IntelliMouse, device ID 3 vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0 sc0: <System console> on isa0 sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x200> sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0 sio0: type 16550A sio1 at port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa0 sio1: type 16550A ppc0: <Parallel port> at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0 ppc0: Generic chipset (NIBBLE-only) in COMPATIBLE mode ppbus0: IEEE1284 device found /NIBBLE/ECP Probing for PnP devices on ppbus0: ppbus0: <Hewlett-Packard HP LaserJet 1100.1.0> PRINTER MLC,PCL,PJL lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0 lpt0: Interrupt-driven port IP Filter: v3.4.8 initialized. Default = pass all, Logging = disabled ata0-master: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 compliant cable ad0: 13216MB <QUANTUM FIREBALLP KA13.6> [26853/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA33 ata1-master: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 compliant cable ad2: 8063MB <QUANTUM FIREBALL CR8.4A> [16383/16/63] at ata1-master UDMA33 ad3: 3079MB <QUANTUM FIREBALL ST3.2A> [6256/16/63] at ata1-slave UDMA33 acd0: CDROM <CD-ROM CDU4011> at ata0-slave using PIO4 Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s2a ifconfig -a output: ed0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 inet 24.200.211.9 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 255.255.255.255 ether 00:e0:29:40:c0:4f lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 cat /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/MYKERN4 ouput: machine i386 cpu I686_CPU ident MYKERN4 maxusers 10 options INET #InterNETworking options IPFILTER options FFS #Berkeley Fast Filesystem options FFS_ROOT #FFS usable as root device [keep this!] options MSDOSFS #MSDOS Filesystem options CD9660 #ISO 9660 Filesystem options PROCFS #Process filesystem options COMPAT_43 #Compatible with BSD 4.3 [KEEP THIS!] options UCONSOLE #Allow users to grab the console options USERCONFIG #boot -c editor options VISUAL_USERCONFIG #visual boot -c editor options KTRACE #ktrace(1) support options SYSVSHM #SYSV-style shared memory options SYSVMSG #SYSV-style message queues options SYSVSEM #SYSV-style semaphores options USER_LDT options P1003_1B #Posix P1003_1B real-time extentions options _KPOSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING options ICMP_BANDLIM #Rate limit bad replies device isa device pci # Floppy drives device fdc0 at isa? port IO_FD1 irq 6 drq 2 device fd0 at fdc0 drive 0 # ATA and ATAPI devices device ata device atadisk # ATA disk drives device atapicd # ATAPI CDROM drives options ATA_STATIC_ID #Static device numbering options ATA_ENABLE_ATAPI_DMA #Enable DMA on ATAPI devices # atkbdc0 controls both the keyboard and the PS/2 mouse device atkbdc0 at isa? port IO_KBD device atkbd0 at atkbdc? irq 1 device psm0 at atkbdc? irq 12 device vga0 at isa? # splash screen/screen saver pseudo-device splash # syscons is the default console driver, resembling an SCO console device sc0 at isa? # Floating point support - do not disable. device npx0 at nexus? port IO_NPX irq 13 # Power management support (see LINT for more options) device apm0 at nexus? disable flags 0x20 # Advanced Power Management # Serial (COM) ports device sio0 at isa? port IO_COM1 flags 0x10 irq 4 device sio1 at isa? port IO_COM2 irq 3 # Parallel port device ppc0 at isa? irq 7 device ppbus # Parallel port bus (required) device lpt # Printer # PCI Ethernet NICs. device ed0 # Pseudo devices - the number indicates how many units to allocated. pseudo-device loop # Network loopback pseudo-device ether # Ethernet support pseudo-device tun # Packet tunnel. pseudo-device pty # Pseudo-ttys (telnet etc) # The `bpf' pseudo-device enables the Berkeley Packet Filter. # Be aware of the administrative consequences of enabling this! pseudo-device bpf #Berkeley packet filter options TCP_DROP_SYNFIN #drop TCP packets with SYN+FIN options TCP_RESTRICT_RST #restrict emission of TCP RST #Sound device pcm PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND 0 ?? DLs 0:00.00 (swapper) 1 ?? ILs 0:00.01 /sbin/init -- 2 ?? DL 0:00.00 (pagedaemon) 3 ?? DL 0:00.00 (vmdaemon) 4 ?? DL 0:00.00 (bufdaemon) 5 ?? DL 0:00.00 (syncer) 40 ?? Is 0:00.00 adjkerntz -i 115 ?? Is 0:00.00 /sbin/dhclient ed0 139 ?? Ss 0:00.03 syslogd -s 158 ?? Is 0:00.00 cron 227 v0 Ss 0:00.06 -bash (bash) 248 v0 R+ 0:00.00 ps -ax 228 v1 Is+ 0:00.00 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv1 229 v2 Is+ 0:00.00 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv2 230 v3 Is+ 0:00.01 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv3 231 v4 Is+ 0:00.00 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv4 232 v5 Is+ 0:00.00 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv5 233 v6 Is+ 0:00.00 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv6 234 v7 Is+ 0:00.00 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv7