[WBEL-users] 2.4.21-15.0.3.EL

Sun, 25 Jul 2004 22:30:37 -0500

What brand and model network card are you using? This problem could be 
hardware specific. Also do you see any error messages on the screen or in the 
system logs?

Rafael.

On Sunday 25 July 2004 19:18, Nayana Hettiarachchi wrote:
> I have noticed a smilar behavior on one of my White Boxes (
> 2.4.21-15.0.3.EL #1 Mon Jul 5 00:57:51 EDT 2004 i686 athlon i386
> GNU/Linux) where the network interface just stops acepting ping
> requests from my laptop, if i goto the console i can ping back to my
> machine and then in a little bit the interface is alive for me, i
> changed the network card thinking it might help and it hasnt, this
> doesnt happen every single minute but sometimes happen so often to
> iritate me, but i;ve been cluless as to what to do,
>
> Nayana
>
> On Sun, 25 Jul 2004 21:01:45 +0100, Mário Gamito <gamito@netual.pt> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Yap, i also have 7 servers on WBEL with no problem at all.
> > They all run like clock work.
> >
> > The three that are on the line to be migrated are the two DNS servers and
> > the firewall.
> >
> > It just seemed to me that the iptables issue was very specific.
> > But if i have to guess, i would say that it's hardware problems.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Mário Gamito
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: whitebox-users-admin@beau.org
> > > [mailto:whitebox-users-admin@beau.org] On Behalf Of Tony Wicks
> > > Sent: Sunday, July 25, 2004 8:17 PM
> > > To: whitebox-users@beau.org
> > > Subject: RE: [WBEL-users] 2.4.21-15.0.3.EL
> > >
> > > Well I have about 20 machines running Whitebox with hardware
> > > ranging from old p200's to dual Xeon dells with scsi and 4g
> > > ram. They range from Oracle databases, web / mail filtering
> > > and most other imaginable uses. All these machined have
> > > proved completely stable. A couple of machines that were
> > > unstable on FC2 after re-loading with Whitebox are stable.
> > > Infact I prefer my Whitebox machines over my Solaris, RHEL,
> > > RHAS or Debian machines as they are so stable, and everything
> > > just works (without having to deal with RHN, which can be painful).
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: whitebox-users-admin@beau.org
> > > > [mailto:whitebox-users-admin@beau.org]
> > > > On Behalf Of Mário Gamito
> > > > Sent: Sunday, 25 July 2004 8:28 p.m.
> > > > To: 'Andy'; whitebox-users@beau.org
> > > > Subject: RE: [WBEL-users] 2.4.21-15.0.3.EL
> > > >
> > > > Oops,
> > > >
> > > > I was about to replace my companie's firewall from Fedora to WBEL,
> > > > (just running iptables), but i think i'll wait :(
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > > Mário Gamito
> > > >
> > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > From: whitebox-users-admin@beau.org
> > > > > [mailto:whitebox-users-admin@beau.org] On Behalf Of Andy
> > > > > Sent: Sunday, July 25, 2004 4:41 AM
> > > > > To: whitebox-users@beau.org
> > > > > Subject: Re: [WBEL-users] 2.4.21-15.0.3.EL
> > > > >
> > > > > I've observed similar behavior. I'm using iptables script
> > >
> > > generated
> > >
> > > > > by fwbuilder ( www.fwbuilder.com ) doing nat and serving
> > >
> > > pages. Once
> > >
> > > > > in a while the machine stops responding to network requests. If I
> > > > > log in through the console, everything seems to be
> > >
> > > working fine and
> > >
> > > > > I just have to rerun the fwbuilder script and/or restart iptables
> > > > > and everything comes up. There is nothing in the error log, can
> > > > > anyone point out where to look for debug information?
> > > > >
> > > > > Greg Brown wrote:
> > > > > > has anyone had any problem with servers (acting as routers
> > > > >
> > > > > using nat)
> > > > >
> > > > > > running kernel 2.4.21-15.0.3.EL simply "going to
> > >
> > > sleep"?  I have a
> > >
> > > > > > server I just installed it's running masq(nat) via iptables and
> > > > > > not doing much else.. it's a basic edge box.  Anyway, after
> > > > >
> > > > > about an hour
> > > > >
> > > > > > or so of running the system will stop accepting incoming SSH
> > > > > > connections, it will stop routing, etc.  Basically it
> > >
> > > acts like it
> > >
> > > > > > went to sleep.  I'm 100% positive all my power saving bios
> > > > > > features are disabled (but I'm going to check them
> > >
> > > again).  Just
> > >
> > > > > > wonder if anyone else has seen this with this kernel?
> > >
> > > I've booted
> > >
> > > > > > back a rev and I'm going to see if that helps (after I
> > >
> > > reboot and
> > >
> > > > > check the bios).
> > > > >
> > > > > > Greg
> > > > > >
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