nfe0 connection not as reliable; a few questions...

[Jeffrey Bouquet]

On Sat, 23 Apr 2016 19:48:46 -0700 (PDT), "Jeffrey Bouquet" <jbtakk at iherebuywisely.com> wrote:

> Updated current  { from Sept last year } to this week... and nfe0 now seems to require a reboot 
> daily at least { no access to beyond-the-lan ... } 
> 
> Is there maybe some tunable (net.inet... ) related  or sysctl { kern.ipc... } similar, that
> could be a cause?  New code of ifconfig or the network stack within the last seven
> months or so? Usual fixes of MTU size to set? 
> 
> The coincidence of the daily network stack loss with the installkernel/world r298350 would
> at first glance rule out hardware issues... Hadn't seen that type of network  issue before
> { I can connect to the gateway, but the modem  { comtrend } in bridge mode seems
> to fail.  }.    I checked some of the net at freebsd.org list to no avail...   The modem had worked
> fine for about two weeks previously... at least.
> 
> Apologies for wasting anyone's time; there are tests I could run with more machines on the
> lan, but though to ask here first.   And did not think of those setups until after I had half-completed
> this email...
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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Progress [still unsure].  On a hunch I ran a small .sh to ping a site periodically
[ not constantly and  within terms of its
usage of course.]  That .sh was set up some years back to keep a wifi connection up [laptop].
On this desktop, which had a network disconnect at under two hours and under 4 hours, within
the last twenty-four hours or so, it has
now, at least once, had the network reliable for over six hours.  

I've yet to do two other tests ( outage wholly across the lan and a different driver ) but hoping for
this workaround to be feasible...