NIC not coming up when Ethernet Cable is replugged

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On Nov 6, 2006, at 9:56 AM, Mailinglists wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> i am having a strange Problem, which was more apparent under  
> FreeBSD 5.5 and 6.0, but still happens to me under 6.1, on  
> different machines with different NIC`s.
>
> Basically when during the day something happens to my Machines  
> Network Connection, for example someone pulls out the Cable, when  
> it is re-plugged in, sometimes it doesn't become active anymore. It  
> doesn't says No Carrier under ifconfig, but the Machine cannot be  
> pinged and also cannot ping another host. Restarting the Machine is  
> no help.Helping is logging in as root, and issuing a ifconfig vr0  
> down followed by a ifconfig vr0 up. Then there is a console message  
> saying vr0: Using force reset command. After that everything works  
> again as usual. For some machines this is a real problem for me  
> because they dont have Keyboard Mouse or Monitor, and i cant get in  
> remotely.
>
> Thanks for any Ideas,
>
> David
>
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