Aric Gregson wrote: > I seem to be experiencing frequent LAN disconnections with my ethernet > connection using the rge device driver. I am not sure how to investigate > this further. I think it is happening more frequently since upgrading to > 7.7, but definitely occurred previous to this version. > > When it happens I lose connection to a computer on the LAN that I have > vnc'd into. I am not able to ping 'www.google.com' either. When I run > 'ifconfig -a' it does not mention an issue (i.e., the rge0 still has an > IP address and says 'status: active').
I know this isn't the answer you're looking for, but a few years ago I had a Windows box with a very similar issue. Sending moderate amounts of RDP traffic would cause the NIC to drop offline momentarily. The only long-term fix was to replace it with a non-Realtek NIC. Regards Lloyd
