> On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 00:48:26 +0300 (MSK)
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Does
> > ifconfig xx down; ifconfig xx up
> > helps?
> Tried that many many times; no effect.
>
> > Can be packet loss triggered by a lot of small
> > packets on this interface?
> Not that I've noticed. Any suggestions on h
Long -
Adam wrote:
> Any suggestions on how to test this effectively?
SInce this is very intermittant and to the point where you have to reboot my
first suggestion:
Run top and check for a memory leak from a process. I had this once where
apache would slowly use up the memory then all the swap s
On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 00:48:26 +0300 (MSK)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Does
> ifconfig xx down; ifconfig xx up
> helps?
Tried that many many times; no effect.
> Can be packet loss triggered by a lot of small
> packets on this interface?
Not that I've noticed. Any suggestions on how to test this
> On Thu, 08 Jan 2004 13:02:23 +1000
> Q <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > The first thing you should try is setting the ethernet card to use
> > autosense. This enables the autosense pulse to be sent to the switch,
> > without this some passive/unmanaged switches can get very confused and
> > swit
On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 21:47:59 -0500 (EST)
Mitch Collinsworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> When you say "both ends" do you mean computer and network switch? Or
> do you mean computer A and computer B? Is the switch managed or
> unmanaged? You can't set full duplex on an unmanaged switch, it is
> a
On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Adam McLaurin wrote:
> First, both speed & duplex are set manualyl at both ends. In fact, I did
> this more than a year ago as a recommendation to solve this particular
> problem we're discussing now. In other words, the problem existed before
> I manually set speed/duplex, an
On Thu, 08 Jan 2004 13:02:23 +1000
Q <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The first thing you should try is setting the ethernet card to use
> autosense. This enables the autosense pulse to be sent to the switch,
> without this some passive/unmanaged switches can get very confused and
> switch speeds and
The first thing you should try is setting the ethernet card to use
autosense. This enables the autosense pulse to be sent to the switch,
without this some passive/unmanaged switches can get very confused and
switch speeds and duplex at seemingly random intervals for a while
before eventually sortin
Since I first installed FreeBSD 2 years ago, I have intermittent
problems with my LAN transfer speeds. It doesn't happen often, but when
it does, I've not found any solution other than rebooting the server.
My network configuration looks like this:
cable modem --> freebsd 5.1-R --> dlink switch --
