Re: Random Network Drops on Realtek Interfaces (re)

2009-09-23 Thread Cassidy Larson
> Hmm, not yet. When you lost network connection on re can you still > see incoming traffics from other hosts with tcpdump? Also would you > check available mbuf with "netstat -m" when you think re is not > respond to any request? No incoming traffic found with tcpdump, just outgoing arp requests

Re: Random Network Drops on Realtek Interfaces (re)

2009-09-23 Thread Cassidy Larson
> It looks plain RTL8168C PCIe controller. Is there any odd messages > reported by re(4) such as watchdog timeouts? > If you disable MSI feature does it make any difference?(Add > hw.re.msi_disable="1" to /boot/loader.conf to disable MSI.) Disabling MSI didnt solve the problem. Any other suggesti

Re: Random Network Drops on Realtek Interfaces (re)

2009-09-22 Thread Cassidy Larson
> It looks plain RTL8168C PCIe controller. Is there any odd messages > reported by re(4) such as watchdog timeouts? > If you disable MSI feature does it make any difference?(Add > hw.re.msi_disable="1" to /boot/loader.conf to disable MSI.) No watchdog timeouts reported. I'll try the msi_disable op

Re: Random Network Drops on Realtek Interfaces (re)

2009-09-22 Thread Cassidy Larson
Suggestions were: #1) try "arp -da". This does not fix the issue. I don't see any ARP for any other IPs other than the local. #2) speed/duplex settings. I tried forcing 100FD on the box and that didnt resolve the issue. When I did force 100 full-duplex on the switch, the box appeared as if it w

Random Network Drops on Realtek Interfaces (re)

2009-09-21 Thread Cassidy Larson
All, I've been experiencing an intermittent issue with a drop in networking connectivity on a couple of boxes. At random times I drop connectivity between the servers and their gateway. I am able to login via the secondary interface and "/etc/netstart" and everything starts behaving as normal. My