From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 19 18:17:23 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E78D716A4EF; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 18:17:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from remko@freebsd.org) Received: from caelis.elvandar.org (caelis.elvandar.org [217.148.169.59]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBB9043D69; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 18:17:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from remko@freebsd.org) Received: from localhost (caelis.elvandar.org [217.148.169.59]) by caelis.elvandar.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA90692FDBE; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 20:16:48 +0200 (CEST) Received: from caelis.elvandar.org ([217.148.169.59]) by localhost (caelis.elvandar.org [217.148.169.59]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 72911-09; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 20:16:48 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [10.0.2.125] (evilcoder.xs4all.nl [195.64.94.120]) by caelis.elvandar.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5ED0E92FCE9; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 20:16:48 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4537C126.5000207@FreeBSD.org> Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 20:17:10 +0200 From: Remko Lodder User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Macintosh/20060909) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kip Macy References: <2a41acea0610181046k822afd1qcec4187dc8514187@mail.gmail.com> <2a41acea0610181531y732cd5sa7bf733cc445491c@mail.gmail.com> <20061018171704.A3851@demos.bsdclusters.com> In-Reply-To: <20061018171704.A3851@demos.bsdclusters.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by the elvandar.org maildomain Cc: freebsd-net , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Jack Vogel Subject: Re: em network issues X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: remko@FreeBSD.org List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 18:17:24 -0000 Kip Macy wrote: > > On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, Jack Vogel wrote: >> I'm a bit confused from the way you worded this, do you have watchdogs >> with em, or you use em to avoid them? > > I have watchdogs with the current (post vendor update) em driver, but > not with an older (pre vendor update) version of it. > Same here! Didn't had the problem prior to the update, after the update it started doing watchdog timeouts, occassionaly the interface goes up/down after the watchdog error. I did not spot this on my other servers yet, but the traffic passing the if_em interface is not that much (just normal webtraffic, mail traffic etc). cheers, remko -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder ** remko@elvandar.org FreeBSD ** remko@FreeBSD.org /* Quis custodiet ipsos custodes */