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Date:      Thu, 21 May 2015 11:10:38 -0500
From:      Guy Helmer <guy.helmer@gmail.com>
To:        Christopher Forgeron <csforgeron@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Net <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 9.3 - Intel X520-SR2 stops passing packets
Message-ID:  <BD7871A4-69C2-49EB-89D4-9EB741E2EB2B@gmail.com>
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> On May 21, 2015, at 8:52 AM, Christopher Forgeron =
<csforgeron@gmail.com> wrote:
>=20
> A few things:
>=20
> 1) How long before you have this behaviour?
>=20
> 2) What's the output of 'netstat -m' when you have the problem?
>=20
> 3) What is your MTU set to, and do you have TSO on or off?
>=20
> On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 10:33 AM, Guy Helmer <guy.helmer@gmail.com =
<mailto:guy.helmer@gmail.com>> wrote:
> I=E2=80=99ve noticed that there have been reports of problems with =
Intel X520-SR2 network interfaces stopping working. I think I=E2=80=99m =
seeing a similar issue where the 10Gb interfaces stop receiving traffic =
(they=E2=80=99re being used in promiscuous mode to sniff traffic from a =
tap). ifconfig shows the interfaces are still active and the links are =
OK. ifconfig down/up restores activity. I=E2=80=99ve changed =
hw.intr_storm_threshold=3D8000 but I couldn=E2=80=99t tell if the =
interrupt storm threshold had been triggered at the time the interfaces =
stopped passing traffic.

It seems to run from hours to days without problems.

I don=E2=80=99t have the output of =E2=80=9Cnetstat -m=E2=80=9D =
available, but it did not indicate any mbuf or cluster allocation =
failures. No jumbo clusters (4k, 9k, or 16k) were allocated.

MTU is 1500. TSO is =E2=80=9Con=E2=80=9D but would seem to be irrelevant =
=E2=80=94 no packets are transmitted out of these interfaces (verified =
using =E2=80=9Cnetstat -i=E2=80=9D).

Thanks,
Guy=



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