Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 10:50:33 -0500 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: rolnas@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problems with network on em Message-ID: <4CE7EE49.8050808@sentex.net> In-Reply-To: <FAAB9340-52AB-4874-97D7-152B7FA0B466@gmail.com> References: <FAAB9340-52AB-4874-97D7-152B7FA0B466@gmail.com>
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On 11/20/2010 10:09 AM, rolnas@gmail.com wrote: > I'm experiencing network interface stalls on em in FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE (-p1). > It looks like the problem could be solved in 8-STABLE, but should I upgrade to it ? > Is it OK to try to get only em driver code and recompile as module and try to run it ? > > sysctl dev.em.2.stats=1: > ... > em2: Missed Packets = 101334 > em2: Receive No Buffers = 488 > ... > em2: RX overruns = 1356 > em2: watchdog timeouts = 1 > ... > > Only "ifconfig em2 down;ifconfig em2 up" helps for some time. > The same happens on em0 interface only, but not in the same time. > It is production (NAT) router with pf+pfsync+carp and failover over another router. > They are old "SunFire X4100" boxes (4GB RAM, 2*2 AMD Opteron 2.2GHz). There are a lot of bug fixes in the version for HEAD. I would actually try that. You should be able to compile it in your existing kernel. Just grab the source files from /usr/src/sys/dev/e1000 from CURRENT and overwrite them locally. Then recompile your kernel and try that. ---Mike
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