if_re losinbg ability to communicate, even with latest patches

[Pyun YongHyeon]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 02:34:01PM +0000, Pete French wrote:
 > yesterday I had my first experience of an if_re interface simply stopping
 > responding. I ma running 7.0-RELEASE on the machine, but with
 > the lates files taken from here:
 > 
 > 	http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/re/7.0R/if_re.c
 > 	http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/re/7.0R/if_rlreg.h
 > 
 > Luckily I had worried about tis and have set the machine up to reboot
 > if it suspects that it';s netowkring is down, so twelve hours later it
 > did so and I can login again. Is there anythign useful I can get out
 > of the logs to try and work out what the problem is though ? A I see
 > lots of messages in the log like this:
 > 
 > "error sending response: not enough free resources"
 > 
 > but I am assuming that this is due to the ether stall, not the cause of
 > it. Would enabling polling on the interface help ? (i.e. is this possiblky
 > a lost interrupt issue?).
 > 

Any other console messages printed from re(4)?

Show me both verbosed boot messages related with re(4) and
'vmstat -i' output.

 > All advice welcome...
 > 
 > -pete.

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Regards,
Pyun YongHyeon