msk interface crashing during data transfer

[tekkitan]

Built my old desktop into a FreeNAS box. Motherboard is built for Windows, but it seems to work pretty well. I started transferring data from my old file server that this is replacing via an NFS share, which was going well last night after I started it and it ran for an hour before I went to sleep.

I woke up this morning, and the transfer had locked up. Tried pinging the IP of my FreeNAS and it was not replying and had no ARP. Also saw console messages about no route to host and something about the watchdog service failing for msk0 (my only interface). I rebooted the FreeNAS box and it came back up and I could access it via the network again.

I decided to try my transfer again, this time using rsync. Unlike last night though, it locked up immediately instead of after a couple hours. Again the solution to get it back on the network was to reboot.

I am wondering if there is an issue with the msk interface driver. Is anyone else using an msk NIC driver on their system?

 

[dlavigne]

Nope, but googling msk shows a lot of unhappy users. Would be worthwhile to grab an Intel NIC and see if that fixes the issue.

 

[tekkitan]

Nope, but googling msk shows a lot of unhappy users. Would be worthwhile to grab an Intel NIC and see if that fixes the issue.

I figured. I've already got a dual port Intel NIC headed my way. Thanks for the reply.

 

[Durandal]

If you still want to use the interfaces, add these to the startup commands of FreeNAS:

• hw.msk.msi_disable="1"
• hw.pci.enable_msi=0
• hw.pci.enable_msix=0

Worked for me with Realtek NIC:s.

 

[tekkitan]

Thanks for the reply, but I got my dual port Intel NIC yesterday and I've had transfers going from my old file server to my new FreeNAS without any freezing. I'll just end up disabling the onboard NIC in the BIOS probably. But good info for anyone else with this chipset :)