5.x/6.x network stability

[Brooks Davis]

On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 09:55:21AM +1000, Carl Makin wrote:
> 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?

The netatalk code gets looked at now an then, but very few people stress
test it.  As more of the kernel is getting properly locked down, the
odds of the other parts breaking increases due to increased concurrency
so I wouldn't be at all surprised if there's a netatalk issue.

-- Brooks

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