On Nov 14, 2006, at 12:20 PM, Damian Wiest wrote:
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 03:03:55PM -0800, Joe wrote:
I have 2 of these adaptors
"Intel PRO/1000GT (82541GI)" rev 0x05
The 82541GI chipset is supported by em(4).
Every day, the box "drops" of the network. The interfaces show
themselves as active, but I can't ping, arp, or sniff any traffic. A
reboot solves the problem. Is anyone else having this problem?
For now, I had to remove the NICs because the box is a firewall
and goes
down at random times throughout the day. I didn't notice any
particular
traffic patterns.
We've encountered similar problems in the past with that chip. I
believe we resolved the issue by using a newer driver, but this was
not
under OpenBSD.
Can you try a more recent version of the em(4) driver? Some commits
were made very recently.
-Damian
FWIW I was having very similar problems with em(4) in OpenBSD 4.0-
release under VMware (amd64 SMP). It would cease to recognize ARP
replies and just flood the network with ARP requests endlessly. It
was enough to bring VMware to it's knees and totally swamp my cheap
switch.
I upgraded to -current from this morning's snapshot and the issue
hasn't resurfaced yet...
Brian Keefer
www.Tumbleweed.com
"The Experts in Secure Internet Communication"
