From owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org Sun Apr 24 02:48:56 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71423B12EC4 for ; Sun, 24 Apr 2016 02:48:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jbtakk@iherebuywisely.com) Received: from mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (mailman.ysv.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::50:5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E9A31271 for ; Sun, 24 Apr 2016 02:48:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jbtakk@iherebuywisely.com) Received: by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) id 59D49B12EC3; Sun, 24 Apr 2016 02:48:56 +0000 (UTC) Delivered-To: current@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5727EB12EC2 for ; Sun, 24 Apr 2016 02:48:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jbtakk@iherebuywisely.com) Received: from aibo.runbox.com (aibo.runbox.com [91.220.196.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 184451270 for ; Sun, 24 Apr 2016 02:48:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jbtakk@iherebuywisely.com) Received: from [10.9.9.241] (helo=rmm6prod02.runbox.com) by bars.runbox.com with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1auA6I-0000AH-6I for current@freebsd.org; Sun, 24 Apr 2016 04:48:46 +0200 Received: from mail by rmm6prod02.runbox.com with local (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1auA6I-0000fp-5h for current@freebsd.org; Sun, 24 Apr 2016 04:48:46 +0200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: from [Authenticated user (846156)] by runbox.com with http (RMM6); for ; Sun, 24 Apr 2016 02:48:46 GMT From: "Jeffrey Bouquet" Reply-To: jbtakk@iherebuywisely.com To: "current" Subject: nfe0 connection not as reliable; a few questions... Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2016 19:48:46 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: RMM6 Message-Id: X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2016 02:48:56 -0000 Updated current { from Sept last year } to this week... and nfe0 now seems= to require a reboot=20 daily at least { no access to beyond-the-lan ... }=20 Is there maybe some tunable (net.inet... ) related or sysctl { kern.ipc...= } similar, that could be a cause? New code of ifconfig or the network stack within the las= t seven months or so? Usual fixes of MTU size to set?=20 The coincidence of the daily network stack loss with the installkernel/worl= d r298350 would at first glance rule out hardware issues... Hadn't seen that type of networ= k issue before { I can connect to the gateway, but the modem { comtrend } in bridge mode = seems to fail. }. I checked some of the net@freebsd.org list to no avail... = The modem had worked fine for about two weeks previously... at least. Apologies for wasting anyone's time; there are tests I could run with more = machines on the lan, but though to ask here first. And did not think of those setups unti= l after I had half-completed this email... Thanks.