On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 3:42 AM, patrick keshishian <pkesh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Just got a mac-mini and got latest snapshot installed on it. first > thing i noticed is doing something like `cvs co src' kills network > connectivity (gem0). I don't plan to have a display or keyboard > attached to it, so first time this happened i thought the box crashed. > attaching a keyboard and monitor to it I was able to log in. Doing a > `ifconfig down ; ifconfig up' got the cvs checkout going again for a > little bit. So I had to continue this ifconfig dance every so often -- > sometimes every few minutes and sometimes every few seconds. I have > not had this issue on gem0 on my ibook, so I don't know if this is > something new (ibook is currently running a month old snapshot). gem > lines out of dmesg of both ibook and mac-mini are identical, except > for the mac-addresses.
I have had this experience multiple times on Mac mini machines. For me it seemed to be completely machine dependent meaning two 1.25 GHz machines and one would have this problem and one would not. It only seemed to be under heavy network load as well. I have six Mac mini G4 machines right now running OpenBSD and 2 or 3 of them sometimes have the issue. Once way around it is to use a USB Ethernet adapter but I would much rather find out what the issue is. If there is anything I can do to troubleshoot this I would be more than happy to help. Bryan
