FreeBSD 8.0 - network stack crashes?

[Ivan Voras]

2009/11/3 Weldon S Godfrey 3 <weldon at excelsusphoto.com>:
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> If memory serves me right, sometime around 9:37am, Pieter de Goeje told me:
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>> Are you perhaps using em(4)? There was an mbuf leak in the driver, which
>> was fixed recently.
>> You can check mbuf usage with netstat -m.
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> we are using onboard NICs on the Dell using the bce driver.  We did try
> several times to see if using an intel PCIexpress card using the em driver,
> and we had the same symptoms.
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> Could the bce driver have the same leak?

It would be unlikely to pass unnoticed since Dells are common hardware...