I've got a machine with a fxp0 Intel 82551i network card. I keep having packet loss when I ping another addresses on same subnet. I also keep having packet loss when pinging 8.8.8.8. In /var/log/messages I have messages about the network card being up and then down, this happens constantly. Any ideas what I could do? I've tried 9.0-RELEASE, 9.1-RELEASE and 9.1-RC.
I tried this http://www.cs.ait.ac.th/laboratory/FB/EN109/msg00002.shtml which suggested either
I tried this http://www.cs.ait.ac.th/laboratory/FB/EN109/msg00002.shtml which suggested either
# ifconfig fxp0 -tso
(I put this in my rc.conf and reboot), I also tried # sysctl net.inet.tso=0
. That only worked for a short while. Any pointers? Is there a possibility that there could be something wrong with my network card? By the way I don't have any firewall currently.