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Subject: Re: FreeBSD 8.0 - network stack crashes?
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Something else just occured to me - do you use ipfw?

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------- Original message -------
> From: Weldon S Godfrey 3 <weldon@excelsusphoto.com>
> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, ivoras@freebsd.org
> Sent: 3.11.'09,  14:35
>
>
>
> If memory serves me right, sometime around 9:37am, Pieter de Goeje told 
> me:
>
>> Are you perhaps using em(4)? There was an mbuf leak in the driver, which 
>> was fixed recently.
>> You can check mbuf usage with netstat -m.
>>
>
> we are using onboard NICs on the Dell using the bce driver.  We did try 
> several times to see if using an intel PCIexpress card using the em 
> driver, and we had the same symptoms.
>
> Could the bce driver have the same leak?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Weldon