Mischa, please provide sendbug (1) with all details to developers and
then wait and hope someone will pick that bug.

Personally I will suggest you to don't use that 11 years old NIC which
causes such problems (in archives I found some reports similar to
yours) and get better NIC which fits your needs.

Check Intel i350
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/embedded/products/networking/ethernet-controller-i350-datasheet.html

You can get it for ~ $150 retail price (dual port). I never had issues
with this one, also I didn't used even half of it's cool features on
any platform.


On Sat, Apr 2, 2016 at 10:14 PM, Mischa Peters <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Evgeniy,
>
> One of the questions I had was indeed how to troubleshoot this. Nothing is in 
> dmesg or messages that is out of the ordinary, I can not find anything that 
> changes on the interface or netstat.
>
> Until the 18th of March this machine was running FreeBSD, without any issues. 
> I moved from 9.3-RELEASE-pXX to OpenBSD 5.8. There are still 2 machines of 
> the same type that are running FreeBSD 9.3 without any issues.
>
> I do know there are issues in FreeBSD 10 with this NIC which haven't been 
> resolved. But they have primarily to do that the driver is not loading.
>
> The thing that is strange is that it works after reboot, I can ping an IP. 
> But as soon as I run ftp or pkg_add for example, it stops working.
>
> Mischa
>
> --
>
>
>
> --
>> On 02 Apr 2016, at 21:15, Evgeniy Sudyr <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Mischa,
>>
>> 1) Consider using sendbug (1) to provide report (read section saying
>> "The following items should be contained in every bug report")
>>
>> http://www.openbsd.org/report.html
>>
>> 2) I suggest to provide more details about your system configuration.
>> Most interesting is if any sysctl tuning done and if it was working
>> system or new/fresh setup which never worked before?
>>
>> 3) Can it be some broken hardware? I just googled for your board / NIC
>> and both are about 9yrs old.
>>
>> --
>> Evgeniy
>>
>>> On Sat, Apr 2, 2016 at 7:36 PM, Mischa <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I just tried with: OpenBSD host 5.9 GENERIC.MP#1888 amd64
>>> The result is still the same. Networking stops and sometimes continues 
>>> after some time.
>>> Could this because of SMP networking?
>>>
>>> What I am seeing on the switch is that the MAC address is still in the MAC 
>>> table.
>>> But there is no longer an ARP entry.
>>>
>>> Mischa
>>>
>>>
>>>> On 22 Mar 2016, at 12:18, Mischa <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi All,
>>>>
>>>> I would be happy to provide remote console access if that helps.
>>>>
>>>> Mischa
>>>>
>>>>> On 20 Mar 2016, at 14:52, Mischa <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>
>>>>> I am running OpenBSD 5.8, and tried 5.9 as well, on a SuperMicro PDSMi 
>>>>> which has an Intel 82573E.
>>>>> For some reason networking just stops working after a random amount of 
>>>>> time and usually happens when I SSH-ed into the machine.
>>>>> When connected to the console it seems to be working longer. I am testing 
>>>>> this by pinging an IP address on the local subnet.
>>>>>
>>>>> Unfortunately I can not find anything different from an interface 
>>>>> perspective, subnet perspective and nothing appears in the logs.
>>>>> The problem goes away, temporarily, when I bounce the interface on the 
>>>>> switch.
>>>>>
>>>>> How can I best troubleshoot the cause?
>>>>>
>>>>> # dmesg
>>>>> em0 at pci4 dev 0 function 0 "Intel 82573E" rev 0x03: msi, address 
>>>>> 00:30:48:96:42:06
>>>>>
>>>>> # pcidump -v
>>>>> 13:0:0: Intel 82573E
>>>>>    0x0000: Vendor ID: 8086 Product ID: 108c
>>>>>    0x0004: Command: 0107 Status: 0010
>>>>>    0x0008: Class: 02 Subclass: 00 Interface: 00 Revision: 03
>>>>>    0x000c: BIST: 00 Header Type: 00 Latency Timer: 00 Cache Line Size: 10
>>>>>    0x0010: BAR mem 32bit addr: 0xe8a00000/0x00020000
>>>>>    0x0014: BAR empty (00000000)
>>>>>    0x0018: BAR io addr: 0x00005000/0x0020
>>>>>    0x001c: BAR empty (00000000)
>>>>>    0x0020: BAR empty (00000000)
>>>>>    0x0024: BAR empty (00000000)
>>>>>    0x0028: Cardbus CIS: 00000000
>>>>>    0x002c: Subsystem Vendor ID: 15d9 Product ID: 108c
>>>>>    0x0030: Expansion ROM Base Address: 00000000
>>>>>    0x0038: 00000000
>>>>>    0x003c: Interrupt Pin: 01 Line: 0b Min Gnt: 00 Max Lat: 00
>>>>>    0x00c8: Capability 0x01: Power Management
>>>>>    0x00d0: Capability 0x05: Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI)
>>>>>    0x00e0: Capability 0x10: PCI Express
>>>>>            Link Speed: 2.5 / 2.5 GT/s Link Width: x1 / x1
>>>>>
>>>>> # ifconfig em0
>>>>> em0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>>>>>     lladdr 00:30:48:96:42:06
>>>>>     priority: 0
>>>>>     groups: egress
>>>>>     media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT 
>>>>> full-duplex,master,rxpause,txpause)
>>>>>     status: active
>>>>>     inet <ip> netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 46.23.86.255
>>>>>
>>>>> # netstat -nr
>>>>> Internet:
>>>>> Destination        Gateway            Flags   Refs      Use   Mtu  Prio 
>>>>> Iface
>>>>> default            <ip>         UGS        3       37     -     8 em0
>>>>> <net>/24        46.23.86.132       UC         1        0     -     8 em0
>>>>> <ip>         02:e0:52:9c:3c:56  UHLc       1        0     -     8 em0
>>>>> <ip>       00:30:48:96:42:06  HLl        0        0     -     1 lo0
>>>>> <ip>       <ip>       UHb        0        0     -     1 em0
>>>>> 127/8              127.0.0.1          UGRS       0        0 32768     8 
>>>>> lo0
>>>>> 127.0.0.1          127.0.0.1          UHl        1        0 32768     1 
>>>>> lo0
>>>>> 224/4              127.0.0.1          URS        0        0 32768     8 
>>>>> lo0
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanx!
>>>>>
>>>>> Mischa
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> --
>> With regards,
>> Eugene Sudyr
>



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