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Originally Posted by albator
To recreate the problem, it seems you just need ...my Internet box ....
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Only you know what that is. No one here can look over your shoulder and see it.
We here can only work from information you provide. These are the things I know about your problem:
- You're running OpenBSD/amd64. Eventually, you disclosed you were running 5.4-stable through packaging provided by M:Tier, a third party service.
- You are using the re(4) driver, which works with half a dozen different Realtek chipsets.
- Your system uses an RFC 1918 address.
- Your problem occurs whenever your local network is physically connected, whether or not you assign a static address or use dhclient.
- No network I/O errors are reported through netstat, and whatever PHY is being used is using 100BaseTX full-duplex.
- Your performance problem is not an abundance of processes waiting for resource, your vmstat output shows only one process waiting.
- You have an unrelated memory conflict reported by the pci(4) driver. These messages have been discussed on this forum before, and I do not consider this to be to be an issue.
- Your problem began yesterday or the day before, and no changes were made prior to its onset, which would tend to indicate a hardware problem rather than a software problem. However, you are running a kernel which includes a patch committed on Friday, so it is possible that your "no changes" comment was made without considering a revised OS to be a change. This indication of a hardware problem may be misleading.
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In fact I found similar threads on OpenBSD 5.4 on the misc mailing list :
Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2013 08:38:49 +0100
Subject: Problems receiving IP with dhclient
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That problem report is specific to dhclient. You have stated that your problem occurs whether you use dhclient or assign a static address.