From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 24 15:57:06 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1077116A402 for ; Sun, 24 Feb 2008 15:57:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from simonychang@gmail.com) Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.224]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FA3B13C45A for ; Sun, 24 Feb 2008 15:57:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from simonychang@gmail.com) Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 68so1742039wri.3 for ; Sun, 24 Feb 2008 07:57:04 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=39KfsbMPnKO64SOZKI3mHrSQVRmmY2LGCftmoTQTKLw=; b=rwJXUmd8JuyN0OLhgG5Fve0+c8h7csyqj1orMGWp8jk/1ZrGnyeTloviEqmQGfClXv7tOI79381hUIPavZ3QVtVLyx3aGsZtsO4P62onUvmZmsHfuHKqObXj56sa8UT0ulAt0irXcda/P9NIrSXkQKPhovQ21J/VYphhnxB8960= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=uKOudkPxe65xlx//OAZodYCdrHmF/2mWnIZi4YeK7Xh0K67kc590pvovZ1/tz/qoz/j5GxoKK0OB4/diLYbcPeLx+MiT98e1Tk75zqbXKXCekwyV2KJe5A7a0/BZrOIJGJnA/YS8h/CuK/KuJXUtK3dsPn7l73HRI/NtmCbH6bY= Received: by 10.141.99.4 with SMTP id b4mr1184226rvm.208.1203868623625; Sun, 24 Feb 2008 07:57:03 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.141.190.20 with HTTP; Sun, 24 Feb 2008 07:57:03 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <8efc42630802240757i5e0c9f36g29a726a31de27502@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 10:57:03 -0500 From: "Simon Chang" To: "Dave Raven" In-Reply-To: <00b301c876f1$74b16d80$5e144880$@za.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <00b301c876f1$74b16d80$5e144880$@za.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dropped Packets X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 15:57:06 -0000 Hardware issues come to mind. Do you have a dmesg? SC On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 9:27 AM, Dave Raven wrote: > Hi all, > I have a FreeBSD 4.11 (I know its outdated but I don't have an > option) box which is behaving very weirdly. After about a day and a half it > starts to drop packets - about 6-10% of pings at least, and tcp traffic > becomes unreliable etc. > > I have swapped out the network cards, the cables etc and I don't have any > mbuf problems and all seems fine. For the first day the box works fine - > pinging, doing tcp traffic etc; and then suddenly it just stops. Rebooting > brings it all back to normal. > > Any ideas what could be causing this, and how I could go about diagnosing > it? As far as I know there are no known bugs for this. I'm using the em > driver, but not with SMP. There are no errors on the interface, and the em > debug_info and stats sysctl's don't show any problems - there is no > indication on the box itself that its dropping packets.. > > My thinking is that it must be box specific as a reboot solves the problem? > > Thanks in advance > Dave > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >