Re: Random Network Drops on Realtek Interfaces (re)

2009-09-23 Thread Cassidy Larson
It looks plain RTL8168C PCIe controller. Is there any odd messages reported by re(4) such as watchdog timeouts? If you disable MSI feature does it make any difference?(Add hw.re.msi_disable=1 to /boot/loader.conf to disable MSI.) Disabling MSI didnt solve the problem. Any other suggestions?

Re: Random Network Drops on Realtek Interfaces (re)

2009-09-23 Thread Cassidy Larson
Hmm, not yet. When you lost network connection on re can you still see incoming traffics from other hosts with tcpdump? Also would you check available mbuf with netstat -m when you think re is not respond to any request? No incoming traffic found with tcpdump, just outgoing arp requests from

Re: Random Network Drops on Realtek Interfaces (re)

2009-09-22 Thread Cassidy Larson
Suggestions were: #1) try arp -da. This does not fix the issue. I don't see any ARP for any other IPs other than the local. #2) speed/duplex settings. I tried forcing 100FD on the box and that didnt resolve the issue. When I did force 100 full-duplex on the switch, the box appeared as if it

Re: Random Network Drops on Realtek Interfaces (re)

2009-09-22 Thread Cassidy Larson
It looks plain RTL8168C PCIe controller. Is there any odd messages reported by re(4) such as watchdog timeouts? If you disable MSI feature does it make any difference?(Add hw.re.msi_disable=1 to /boot/loader.conf to disable MSI.) No watchdog timeouts reported. I'll try the msi_disable option

Random Network Drops on Realtek Interfaces (re)

2009-09-21 Thread Cassidy Larson
All, I've been experiencing an intermittent issue with a drop in networking connectivity on a couple of boxes. At random times I drop connectivity between the servers and their gateway. I am able to login via the secondary interface and /etc/netstart and everything starts behaving as normal. My