Lost net connection

[Kirk Coombs]

> On Aug 30, 2019, at 10:27, Pierre Dupond <76nemo76 at gmx.ch> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 30 Aug 2019 23:36:38 +1000 MJ <mafsys1234 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 30/08/2019 8:28 pm, Pierre Dupond wrote:
>>> 
>> It may very well be:
>> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=239240
> 
> Effectively I have the same symptoms as those described
> in the bug report.
> 
> In my case it is annoying but not too much since this machine
> is a server which should be always up and always connected.
> I have discovered the problem since  it still in the installation
> procedure when the switch where it is connected is sometime switched off.
> 
> I would be happy however if a patch is published.

I had a different issue with an Intel NIC on 12.0-RELEASE. It would go down
when under heavy usage, with similar console messages, and nothing but a 
reboot would clear it up (a "service netif restart" didn't help). I 
switched to net/intel-em-kmod from the ports and I've had no issues since.

Kirk