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This issue went away after disabling dhclient on the vr0 interface. With the machine fixed IP, it's running an absolute dream - glad to see that FreeBSD wasn't fussy at all with using cheap hardware and changing hardware after an installation! Glad this machine wasn't using Windows! Thanks for replying though ML :) Regards, Graham Lilley Hardware / Network Engineer -----Original Message----- From: Miroslav Lachman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 01 June 2006 11:43 To: Gray Lilley Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Graham Lilley Subject: Re: vr card issues on 6.1-STABLE Gray Lilley wrote: > After a motherboard failure in a machine, I purchased a cheap AXPER > motherboard to replace it. The machine is a Socket478 P4 with a Via > Rhine onboard NIC. [...] > Once booted, the machine is contactable locally, can be pinged and can > ssh to it. After what appears to be a random amount of time (I have > observed between 5 and 30 minutes as of now), the vr0 interface seems to > just hang. The machine cannot be pinged, and no services running on the > machine are contactable. I have 2 machines with motherboard EPOX 8kra2+ with VIA Rhine vr0 NIC. One as desktop and the second as testing machine. Both with AMD Barton 2500+ On desktop machine I can run w2k, FreeBSD 5.4 and FreeBSD 6.1 (6.0 earlier), on testing machine is FreeBSD 6.0. On desktop I mainly work under w2k, connecting by Putty SSH to testing machine and others. Sometimes I am working under FreeBSD 5.4 or 6.1, conecting to other machines on the internet (outgoing ftp/ssh/http) without any problems for about one year. Maybe I have luck, but I can't say anything bad about vr0. > Kernel is GENERIC with the majority of SCSI/RAID removed. I have GENERIC on testing machine and own kernel (GENERIC without SCSI/RAID) on desktop. Miroslav Lachman _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
