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Date:      Sun, 17 Sep 2006 13:48:32 +0200
From:      Christian Brueffer <brueffer@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Christian S.J. Peron" <csjp@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Andre Oppermann <andre@freebsd.org>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: em(4) interface wedges
Message-ID:  <20060917114831.GC1918@haakonia.hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
In-Reply-To: <450C3487.6050104@FreeBSD.org>
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On Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 12:29:43PM -0500, Christian S.J. Peron wrote:
> Christian Brueffer wrote:
> >On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 08:09:20PM +0200, Andre Oppermann wrote:
> > =20
> >>Scott Long wrote:
> >>   =20
> >>>Christian Brueffer wrote:
> >>>
> >>>     =20
> >>>>Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>>with the latest em(4) code in current (sans the printf/device_printf
> >>>>change), my interface wedges every few hours.  It can be resurrected
> >>>>by bringing it down and up again.
> >>>>
> >>>>The device in question is a E1000_DEV_ID_82540EP_LP built into my
> >>>>Thinkpad.
> >>>>
> >>>>Anyone else seeing this?
> >>>>
> >>>>- Christian
> >>>>
> >>>>       =20
> >>>Yes.  It's also almost guaranteed to wedge the first time I do a remote
> >>>CVS operation after boot.
> >>>     =20
> >>When the interface wedges does it show the OACTIVE flag in ifconfig=20
> >>output?
> >>This is an important hint.
> >>
> >>   =20
> >
> >Yeah, OACTIVE is set.
> >
> > =20
> >>If you are running at 100Mbit there seems to be bug in the em(4) harware
> >>with TSO.  Try disabling TSO on it with 'ifconfig em0 -tso'.
> >>
> >>   =20
> >
> >Correct, I'm using it at 100Mbit and disabling TSO works around the
> >issue.
>
> Are you using dhclient (or do you have any other BPF peers attached to=20
> the network interface?)
>=20

No dhclient and no other BPF peers that I'm aware of.

- Christian

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