Random Network Drops on Realtek Interfaces (re)

[Pyun YongHyeon]

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 09:50:45AM -0600, Cassidy Larson wrote:
> > It looks plain RTL8168C PCIe controller. Is there any odd messages
> > reported by re(4) such as watchdog timeouts?
> > If you disable MSI feature does it make any difference?(Add
> > hw.re.msi_disable="1" to /boot/loader.conf to disable MSI.)
> 
> Disabling MSI didnt solve the problem.
> 
> Any other suggestions?
> 

Hmm, not yet. When you lost network connection on re can you still
see incoming traffics from other hosts with tcpdump? Also would you
check available mbuf with "netstat -m" when you think re is not
respond to any request?

> Thanks,
> 
> -c