On Sat, 23 Apr 2016 19:48:46 -0700 (PDT), "Jeffrey Bouquet" <jbtakk_at_iherebuywisely.com> wrote: > Updated current { from Sept last year } to this week... and nfe0 now seems to require a reboot > daily at least { no access to beyond-the-lan ... } > > Is there maybe some tunable (net.inet... ) related or sysctl { kern.ipc... } similar, that > could be a cause? New code of ifconfig or the network stack within the last seven > months or so? Usual fixes of MTU size to set? > > The coincidence of the daily network stack loss with the installkernel/world r298350 would > at first glance rule out hardware issues... Hadn't seen that type of network issue before > { I can connect to the gateway, but the modem { comtrend } in bridge mode seems > to fail. }. I checked some of the net_at_freebsd.org list to no avail... The modem had worked > fine for about two weeks previously... at least. > > Apologies for wasting anyone's time; there are tests I could run with more machines on the > lan, but though to ask here first. And did not think of those setups until after I had half-completed > this email... > > Thanks. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe_at_freebsd.org" Progress [still unsure]. On a hunch I ran a small .sh to ping a site periodically [ not constantly and within terms of its usage of course.] That .sh was set up some years back to keep a wifi connection up [laptop]. On this desktop, which had a network disconnect at under two hours and under 4 hours, within the last twenty-four hours or so, it has now, at least once, had the network reliable for over six hours. I've yet to do two other tests ( outage wholly across the lan and a different driver ) but hoping for this workaround to be feasible...Received on Mon Apr 25 2016 - 04:15:52 UTC
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