Lost net connection

[freebsd at boosten.org]

> Op 30 aug. 2019, om 09:00 heeft 76nemo76 <76nemo76 at gmx.ch> het volgende geschreven:
> 
> Hi All,
>      I have a freebsd 12 machine connected to a network switch.
> The network switch is sometime switched off and on again
> (but not the FreeBSD machine)  and
> then the network is lost on the freebsd machine.
> 
> I have tried a lot of commands (ifconfig for instance) to restart the network
> without any success. Only a reboot makes the network working again.
> 
> I should mention that the machine has 4 ethernet ports
> used in a bridge (all the ethernet ports are in the bridge)
> 
> Do you have any idea?
> 
> 

Just a wild guess, since you don’t provide any information:

Realtek?

Having lots of problems with that driver, especially when transferring large amount of data over it.

Peter