5.x/6.x network stability

From: Carl Makin (carl_at_xena.IPAustralia.gov.au)
Date: 10/28/05

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    Morning All,

    I've been having a heap of trouble with the primary network interface on
    a box that was running 5.4 and recently upgraded to 6.0-Beta5 where 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.

    A week ago, after searching the mailing lists I realised it might be the
    fact that I was using Netatalk and that might not be MP safe so I set
    debug.mpsafenet="0" in /boot/loader.conf and the box has been stable
    ever since.

    Is anyone looking at the kernel Netatalk code? Is this likely to be the
    real reason for the problem?

    Thanks,

    Carl.

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