5.x/6.x network stability

[Carl Makin]

John Pettitt wrote:

>Carl Makin wrote:
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>>Morning All,
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>>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.
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>What sort of network card?  I've been having the same syptoms with a sk
>driver gigabit card.
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Intel Etherexpress 10/100 using the fxp driver and some other brand X 
card using the rl (RealTek) driver.  Interestingly disabling ACPI seemed 
to lengthen the time between failures by a day or so, but it still failed.

It's been running for a week now without a problem by setting 
debug.mpsafenet="0" in loader.conf.

Are you using any oddball protocols or devices?

Carl.