On 1/4/2010 6:02 PM, Ryan Coleman wrote:
> I should add this is a brand new NIC as of October, I believe.
>
> On Jan 4, 2010, at 5:48 PM, Ryan Coleman wrote:
>
>> I have a RealTek 816/x/ NIC in my FreeBSD 8.0 box, this is the same
>> machine I was having issues with last month with ACPI. I've swapped
>> out the hard drive and did a full system install last night and at 2AM
>> the NIC gave out.
>>
>> When I run */etc/rc.d/netif restart* I get the normal processing data
>> about my NICs and then this:
>> *re0: reset never completed!*
>> re0: PHY write failed
>> *re0: PHY write failed*
>> re0: PHY write failed
>> *re0: PHY write failed*
>> re0: PHY write failed
>> *
>> *
Just curious, but instead of restarting all network interfaces what 
happens when you down / up the link?

What are your kernel messages telling you? (/var/log/messages)

>> And it proceeds to bring lo0 and re0 back up, but re0 has it's listed
>> static IP but is not discoverable on the network.
>>
>> A reboot can temporarily fix this but I want to avoid rebooting every
>> 4-6 hours automatically (for obvious reasons).
So the NIC is working for you now - has the above error ever happened 
before, or was this an out of the blue occurrence, that is now repeating?
>>
>> I've found patches referencing 7.1 but not 8.x.
I'm guessing you probably wont find any (at least yet -- or if they (the 
old patches) have already been committed via a previous PR (haven't 
really looked for one).

>>
>> I can post more details if you need, just point me where you need me
>> to look for them.

>>
>> --
>> Ryan
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