Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:39:48 +0900 From: Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh@gmail.com> To: Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: if_re losinbg ability to communicate, even with latest patches Message-ID: <20080229073948.GE60623@cdnetworks.co.kr> In-Reply-To: <E1JUjph-0005ru-00@dilbert.ticketswitch.com> References: <E1JUjph-0005ru-00@dilbert.ticketswitch.com>
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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. -- Regards, Pyun YongHyeon
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