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Date:      Thu, 15 Aug 2002 10:42:03 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Michael A. Dickerson" <mikey@singingtree.com>
To:        Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
Cc:        Benjamin Krueger <benjamin@seattleFenix.net>, Max Clark <max@clarksys.com>, <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Loosing network connection repeatedly without an  identifiable cause
Message-ID:  <20020815103844.K33392-100000@redlance.singingtree.com>
In-Reply-To: <5.1.1.6.0.20020815112108.050af760@marble.sentex.ca>

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On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> At 08:17 AM 15/08/2002 -0700, Benjamin Krueger wrote:
> >Check the number of available mbufs.
>
> That should show up in dmesg (or logged in kern.* via syslog) as well e.g.
>
> /kernel: All mbuf clusters exhausted, please see tuning(7).

Yes, I have seen this on a busy system with a badly tuned kernel.

Did you know there was trouble with the fxp driver in 4-STABLE a few days
ago?  I was having similar bizarre problems (ping works in one
direction, not the other, etc.) with an fxp interface and it turned out to
be a bad cvs commit.  It was discussed in this list.

See for instance:

http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=67068+0+current/freebsd-stable

M.D.



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