Problem with FreeBSD : connection between hostes times out [SOLVED]
When I was transferring a bigger file (from my FreeBSD box to my OpenBSD FTP-server), I suddenly got a timeout. I tried to ping the OpenBSD-box, but it wouldn't answer, same for the FreeBSD-machine. Then I tried transferring the files to my laptop instead, and that didn't either work. After a equivelant amount of time, the connection would timeout and I couldn't ping my laptop from the BSD-box or vice versa. Does anyone have a clue what could be wrong? One second, everything is working, the other second, the connection is dead.
Thanks in advance,
Emil.
SOLVED:
I found the problem, or at least I think so. dhclient was running on that interface and was quering the dhcp-server every xxx-second, and when it wouldn't find then dhcp-server (since it was directly linked to the computer; I have no switch at the moment, sadly) it wouldn't set no IP for the interface, therefore, when loosing it's IP in the connection, the connection got broken
Last edited by hemmelig; 05-22-2005 at 06:24 AM.
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