Hi Evgeniy,

Thank you for your suggestion. Unfortunately there is already a card in the 
only available slot.
I did notice that the network cards had a different chipset.

em0 at pci4 dev 0 function 0 "Intel 82573E" rev 0x03: msi, address 
00:30:48:96:42:06
em1 at pci5 dev 0 function 0 "Intel 82573L" rev 0x00: msi, address 
00:30:48:96:42:07

I moved the cable em1 and it's been behaving as expected since.

Thanx for responding!!

Mischa

> On 03 Apr 2016, at 02:13, Evgeniy Sudyr <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 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
>> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> --
> With regards,
> Eugene Sudyr

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