Re: 5.x/6.x network stability

From: John Pettitt (jpp_at_cloudview.com)
Date: 10/28/05

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    Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 08:47:42 -0700
To: Carl Makin <carl@xena.IPAustralia.gov.au>

    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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