5.x/6.x network stability

Carl Makin carl at xena.IPAustralia.gov.au
Thu Oct 27 16:55:26 PDT 2005


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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