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From: "Kristof Provost" <kristof@sigsegv.be>
To: "Reshad Patuck" <reshadpatuck1@gmail.com>
Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net>,
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Subject: Re: [vnet] [epair] epair interface stops working after some time
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2018 21:02:44 +0200
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On 27 Mar 2018, at 20:59, Reshad Patuck wrote:
> The current value of 'net.link.epair.netisr_maxqlen' is 2100, I will 
> make it 210.
> Will this require a reboot? or can I just change the sysctl and reload 
> the epair module?
> ​
You shouldn’t need to reboot or reload the epair module. When I set it 
to 2 on my box it pretty much immediately lost connectivity over the 
epair interfaces.

I’d expect you to get hit by the bug relatively quickly now, so be 
aware of that.

Regards,
Kristof