From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 25 23:56:15 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0F63106566C for ; Sun, 25 Jul 2010 23:56:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from arab@tangerine-army.co.uk) Received: from smtp-out5.blueyonder.co.uk (smtp-out5.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.213.8]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B862E8FC14 for ; Sun, 25 Jul 2010 23:56:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [172.23.170.143] (helo=anti-virus02-10) by smtp-out5.blueyonder.co.uk with smtp (Exim 4.52) id 1OdB3F-0002Po-2O for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:56:13 +0100 Received: from [94.168.170.153] (helo=Mercury.galaxy.lan.lcl) by asmtp-out2.blueyonder.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1OdB3A-0006WH-Dv for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:56:08 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:55:21 +0100 Message-ID: <01FB8F39BAD0BD49A6D0DA8F7897392904F7B3@Mercury.galaxy.lan.lcl> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 In-Reply-To: <20100725224126.GB34005@comcast.net> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: em0 and FreeBSD8.1 Thread-Index: AcssSrLXcP7dIpb9Q/qNncdSrawXYgAB3BUw References: <20100724062446.GD78741@guilt.hydra><20100724174634.GE50085@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com><4c4bee5a.FbeaX7BIKcgmxnfL%perryh@pluto.rain.com><20100725182359.GA34005@comcast.net><4C4CAFB6.9000703@infracaninophile.co.uk> <20100725224126.GB34005@comcast.net> From: "Graeme Dargie" To: Subject: em0 and FreeBSD8.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 23:56:15 -0000 Hello All, I installed 8.1 yesterday on vmware exsi, all seemed to go fine, but today I noticed when I fired up phpsysinfo a lot of dropped packets. Device Received Sent Err/Drop em0 0.00 KB 0.00 KB 343/0 plip0 0.00 KB 0.00 KB 0/0 lo0 0.00 KB 0.00 KB 0/0 %ifconfig em0: flags=3D8843 metric 0 mtu 1500 options=3D9b ether 00:0c:29:6d:51:a9 inet 192.168.1.120 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT ) status: active The machine that vmware runs on has intel gb based nics and I also run pfsense as my router firewall on the same vmware exsi machine and it has not dropped a packet. Device Received Sent Err/Drop em0 725.40 MB 1.19 GB 0/0 em1 3.49 GB 2.46 GB 0/0 lo0 375.63 KB 375.63 KB 0/0 enc0* 0.00 KB 0.00 KB 0/0 pfsyn 0.00 KB 0.00 KB 0/0 pflog 0.00 KB 146.35 MB 0/0 em1: flags=3D8843 metric 0 mtu 1500 options=3D9b ether 00:0c:29:f0:0c:c3 inet 192.168.1.250 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 inet6 fe80::20c:29ff:fef0:cc3%em1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2 media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseTX ) status: active The only difference I can see is according to phpsysinfo the 8.1 machine shows - Intel Corporation - Gigabit Ethernet Controller (copper) (82545EM) Where as the pfsense vm shows em0: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection 6.9.6 Any one any ideas why this is showing dropped packets. Regards Graeme