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Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2008 01:39:32 -0500
From: Josh Tolbert <hemi@puresimplicity.net>
To: Subhro <subhro.kar@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: NFS drops with em0 driver
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On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 11:36:05AM +0530, Subhro wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am facing a strange problem on my systems. I am running
> FreeBSD-6.2-RELEASE-p12. My network interface uses the em driver. I am
> facing a lot of issues where the NFS connections are dying randomly.
> Is there any known bug with the em driver? I am using the SCHED_ULE
> scheduler.
> 
> Thanks
> Subhro

Hello Subhro,

I have nothing to add besides a "me too." I ended up replacing my em0 with an
fxp0 and all of my networking issues (watchdog timeouts, link
dropping/reconnection, etc.) disappeared. This may have been flaky hardware.
Do you have another NIC you can try with?

Thanks,

Josh
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