From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 22 08:17:20 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DEF994A4 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2014 08:17:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.tdx.com (mail.tdx.com [62.13.128.18]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E7748B6 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2014 08:17:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from Mail-PC.tdx.co.uk (storm.tdx.co.uk [62.13.130.251]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.tdx.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/) with ESMTP id s9M8HGNC021119 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 22 Oct 2014 09:17:17 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 09:17:17 +0100 From: Karl Pielorz To: "Martin G. McCormick" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Network Interface Keeps Dying FreeBSD9.1 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20141022030310.10BBB22956@server1.shellworld.net> References: <20141022030310.10BBB22956@server1.shellworld.net> X-Mailer: Mulberry/4.0.8 (Win32) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 08:17:21 -0000 --On 21 October 2014 22:03 -0500 "Martin G. McCormick" wrote: > You've never seen so much flapping of the connected > interface. Line after line of gbe0 being down followed by gbe0 > being up. Eventually, gbe0 would stop flapping and, no surprise, > was either showing "no carrier" or 0.0.0.0 as the IP address. Hi, Do you mean 'gbe' or do you mean 'bge'? What's the output of 'dmesg | grep gbe' (or bge, if you mean bge ;) -Karl