[font="Verdana"]Hi, all. I have a 8.0-RELEASE machine (x86) which is a gateway and file server. I use ipnat/ipfilter for firewall and samba-3 and nfs-3 for file serving.
Network interfaces are nfe0 (internal, on motherboard) and sk0 (PCI).
Recently, every 3 days or so, the internal interface will stop accepting new traffic - resulting in a scenario which to all other internal machines appears that this box has crashed.
It turns out, the external interface stays lit, for a while at least. Last night, it also stopped responding to new traffic.
In both scenarios, I'm able to log on to the console, stop and start interfaces (which has no effect), reload firewall/nat rules (which has no effect). I can start a ping and I can see the switch port light up with the ping (though I haven't tcpdump'd to verify) but all pings time out.
There are no errors on console or in /var/log/messages which indicate that anything is wrong. The box is quite happy thinking that everything is A-OK. So, I reboot, and we repeat in 3 days.
This most recent time I dumped sysctl -a to a file before reboot, but apparently that's too long for a forum post.[/font]
Network interfaces are nfe0 (internal, on motherboard) and sk0 (PCI).
Recently, every 3 days or so, the internal interface will stop accepting new traffic - resulting in a scenario which to all other internal machines appears that this box has crashed.
It turns out, the external interface stays lit, for a while at least. Last night, it also stopped responding to new traffic.
In both scenarios, I'm able to log on to the console, stop and start interfaces (which has no effect), reload firewall/nat rules (which has no effect). I can start a ping and I can see the switch port light up with the ping (though I haven't tcpdump'd to verify) but all pings time out.
There are no errors on console or in /var/log/messages which indicate that anything is wrong. The box is quite happy thinking that everything is A-OK. So, I reboot, and we repeat in 3 days.
This most recent time I dumped sysctl -a to a file before reboot, but apparently that's too long for a forum post.[/font]