Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 14:28:16 +1000 From: Carl Makin <carl@xena.IPAustralia.gov.au> To: John Pettitt <jpp@cloudview.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.x/6.x network stability Message-ID: <4361A8E0.9090509@xena.ipaustralia.gov.au> In-Reply-To: <43618625.30202@cloudview.com> References: <436168E9.8080907@xena.ipaustralia.gov.au> <43618625.30202@cloudview.com>
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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.
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