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Carl Makin wrote:

> John Pettitt wrote:
>
>> Carl Makin wrote:
>>
>>  
>>
>>> Morning All,
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>   
>>
>> What sort of network card?  I've been having the same syptoms with a sk
>> driver gigabit card.
>>  
>>
> Intel Etherexpress 10/100 using the fxp driver and some other brand X
> card using the rl (RealTek) driver.  Interestingly disabling ACPI
> seemed to lengthen the time between failures by a day or so, but it
> still failed.
>
> It's been running for a week now without a problem by setting
> debug.mpsafenet="0" in loader.conf.
>
> Are you using any oddball protocols or devices?
>
> Carl.
>
>
Not unles you consider a GPS clock on a serial interface and a highpoint
raid  controller oddball.  I'll try the debug flag.

John