[ On Saturday, July 7, 2001 at 02:41:11 (-0400), Thor Lancelot Simon wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: ongoing strange network freezes with no error messages....
>
> On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 02:13:46AM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> > 
> > After "ifconfig rtk0 down; ping server; ifconfig rtk1 up" all's well
> > again!  (rtk0 is the LAN, the other two are to DSL and cable modems)
> 
> Do you, perchance, have the media type hardwired?  I have noticed this
> problem with rtk interfaces if the media type is set to anything but
> "auto".

I do have the media type hardwired.....  Hmmm.....  I seem to remember
that at least one of them wouldn't negotiate with my hub....



The PHY probes as unknown too:

rtk0 at pci0 dev 9 function 0: RealTek 8139 10/100BaseTX
rtk0: interrupting at irq 9
rtk0: Ethernet address 00:48:54:1e:10:e6
ukphy0 at rtk0 phy 7: Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface
ukphy0: OUI 0x000000, model 0x0000, rev. 0
ukphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto

rtk1 at pci0 dev 10 function 0: RealTek 8139 10/100BaseTX
rtk1: interrupting at irq 12
rtk1: Ethernet address 00:50:bf:16:94:30
ukphy1 at rtk1 phy 7: Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface
ukphy1: OUI 0x000000, model 0x0000, rev. 0
ukphy1: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto


(these are not identical cards, FYI...  one's the one that came with my
cable modem, and the other was about $9 at a surplus store, IIRC)


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