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Date:      Fri, 28 Oct 2005 08:47:42 -0700
From:      John Pettitt <jpp@cloudview.com>
To:        Carl Makin <carl@xena.IPAustralia.gov.au>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 5.x/6.x network stability
Message-ID:  <4362481E.1080507@cloudview.com>
In-Reply-To: <4361A8E0.9090509@xena.ipaustralia.gov.au>
References:  <436168E9.8080907@xena.ipaustralia.gov.au> <43618625.30202@cloudview.com> <4361A8E0.9090509@xena.ipaustralia.gov.au>

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Carl Makin wrote:

> John Pettitt wrote:
>
>> Carl Makin wrote:
>>
>>  
>>
>>> Morning All,
>>>
>>> the interface would just go dead.  Nothing in ifconfig or syslog or
>>> dmesg would indicate a problem, but nothing would go in or out. The
>>> only way to fix it was reboot.
>>>   
>>
>> What sort of network card?  I've been having the same syptoms with a sk
>> driver gigabit card.
>>  
>>
> Intel Etherexpress 10/100 using the fxp driver and some other brand X
> card using the rl (RealTek) driver.  Interestingly disabling ACPI
> seemed to lengthen the time between failures by a day or so, but it
> still failed.
>
> It's been running for a week now without a problem by setting
> debug.mpsafenet="0" in loader.conf.
>
> Are you using any oddball protocols or devices?
>
> Carl.
>
>
Not unles you consider a GPS clock on a serial interface and a highpoint
raid  controller oddball.  I'll try the debug flag.

John



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