2.1.1/2.1.2 - Unable to connect LAN from power off without firewall reboot
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I have played around with nic settings on the connecting PC before, and that didn't seem to make a difference, but I will try that again.
I looked at some of the differences between the em drivers in 2.1.0 and 2.1.2.
In 2.1.2 the version is 7.3.8, I think 2.1.0 might be 7.3.2.
One thing I noticed is that the hw.em.eee_setting (Energy Efficient Ethernet) default might have changed.
It now seems to default to 1 and I think it defaulted to 0 before.
However I can't figure out by the somewhat cryptic code if that means it's now enabled or disabled.
Anyway, I set hw.em.eee_setting=0 in /boot/loader.conf.local and rebooted, but that unfortunately didn't fix it. -
Damn that seems like a great suspect. The sysctl had changed after boot?
In my case you could see the NIC wasn't making a connection as ifconfig showed 'no carrier' I don't belive you're seeing that though.
Steve
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After the reboot, sysctl did show eee_setting as 0.
Edit: I tried changing the link speed and duplex of the connecting PC, and that made no difference.
There are some tests included in the Windows nic driver that I ran, and during the time the problem occurs, they all succeed except for the connection test.
