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From: "Ian Freislich" <ianf@clue.co.za>
To: "David Christensen" <davidch@broadcom.com>
Date: Fri,  8 Aug 2008 11:26:28 +0200
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Subject: RE: bce(4) network wierdness
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(replying from my phone)

It's running 7-STABLE, but I'll take it to -CURRENT if this is fixed there. =
 I'm regretting more and more leaving -current for -release on my =
production routers.

Ian
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Subject: RE: bce(4) network wierdness
From: "David Christensen" <davidch@broadcom.com>
Date: 2008-08-07 23:24

> Periodically (initially I thought it was related to bgfsck) but
> I've just had the problem again after 6 days of uptime with no
> provocation.
>
> I get massive packet loss and out of order delivery as evidenced =
below.
>

What's the FreeBSD release?  Some of the 6.X releases had a problem
when an mbuf was fragmented into too many pieces that was later fixed
in the RELENG_6 branch (version 1.2.2.20).

Dave