[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI Hipster becomes unreachable over network after a certain length of uptime

[Stephan Althaus]

On 12/21/21 03:36, Carl Brewer wrote:
> On 21/12/2021 12:47 pm, Judah Richardson wrote:
>> I've been having an odd problem over the past few months in which my OI
>> Hipster installation becomes unreachable over the network after a 
>> certain
>> length of uptime. I haven't been able to determine exactly what this 
>> length
>> is, but I usually become aware of it when restic jobs that use that 
>> machine
>> as a repo start failing.
>
> What version of OI?
> I have an old one that drops off the net after a while, running :
>
> SunOS hostie 5.11 illumos-5d539a8 i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris
>
> That's from :
> oi151a8-dev          NR     /          18.1G static 2013-08-12 22:58
>
> It seemed to be related to traffic, some counter somewhere overflowing 
> - since I took a bunch of Virtualbox VM's off it, it's been a lot more 
> connectable. Now it's just a LAN fileserver. It's gone from losing 
> network once every week or two, to, I can't remember when it last lost 
> network.
>
> Haven't had any problems with newer OI's. As a workaround, I had a 
> script that rebooted it when it couldn't get a ping response.  Not 
> ideal, but it worked!
>
>
> Carl
>
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Hello!

I had problems on a OI box running 2 zones with exclusive network, fixed 
IP's IPV4 only. I had reconfigured the network 2 years ago i think 
(don't know the exact old config), and updated every about half a year 
.... it seems to be solved.

I had this 'solution', too: "As a workaround, I had a script that 
rebooted it when it couldn't get a ping response.  Not ideal, but it 
worked! " :-D

Stephan