From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 27 23:55:25 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9BE616A41F for ; Thu, 27 Oct 2005 23:55:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from carl@xena.IPAustralia.gov.au) Received: from twonetom19.sge.net (twonetom19.sge.net [152.91.2.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58CAD43D48 for ; Thu, 27 Oct 2005 23:55:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from carl@xena.IPAustralia.gov.au) Received: from twonetvs14.sge.net (twonetvs-om [152.91.2.17]) by twonetom19.sge.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD7AEB1FA for ; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 09:55:22 +1000 (EST) Received: from twonetvs14.sge.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5D1E15957 for ; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 09:55:22 +1000 (EST) Received: from twonetim3.sge.net (twonetim-vs.sge.net [152.91.2.9]) by twonetvs14.sge.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B17CE15533 for ; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 09:55:22 +1000 (EST) Received: from guinness.lyn.gwy (unknown [152.91.9.242]) by twonetim3.sge.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 6D2B7A9D3 for ; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 09:55:22 +1000 (EST) Received: from vmail.aipo.gov.au (mail-in.ipa.lyn.gwy [192.168.254.253]) by guinness.lyn.gwy with ESMTP id j9RNtMnt002011 for ; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 09:55:22 +1000 (EST) Received: from xena.aipo.gov.au (xena.aipo.gov.au [10.0.100.52]) by vmail.aipo.gov.au (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j9RNtMYi073060 for ; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 09:55:22 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from carl@xena.IPAustralia.gov.au) Received: from [10.0.100.18] (newton.aipo.gov.au [10.0.100.18]) by xena.aipo.gov.au (8.13.1/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j9RNtLRo055904 for ; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 09:55:21 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from carl@xena.ipaustralia.gov.au) Message-ID: <436168E9.8080907@xena.ipaustralia.gov.au> Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 09:55:21 +1000 From: Carl Makin User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050725) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.51 on 10.0.100.191 Subject: 5.x/6.x network stability X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 23:55:26 -0000 Morning All, I've been having a heap of trouble with the primary network interface on a box that was running 5.4 and recently upgraded to 6.0-Beta5 where the interface would just go dead. Nothing in ifconfig or syslog or dmesg would indicate a problem, but nothing would go in or out. The only way to fix it was reboot. A week ago, after searching the mailing lists I realised it might be the fact that I was using Netatalk and that might not be MP safe so I set debug.mpsafenet="0" in /boot/loader.conf and the box has been stable ever since. Is anyone looking at the kernel Netatalk code? Is this likely to be the real reason for the problem? Thanks, Carl.