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How is this related to storage/NFS?

To be honest, I don't know.  I've followed the trail through google and it ended at that commit.  If you read through the page at the link, there are various stages of testing and trials.

Fixes have been pushed to 11-CURRENT but not 10-STABLE. Should have been there 2 months ago, but networking maintenance in 10-STABLE is flaky. I'm sorry.

I know that Shawn will try to build OPNsense/HardenedBSD on top of 11-CURRENT soon. That'll certainly help.

You have no reason to be sorry.  I appreciate the information.  I'm very new and RAW to any of this (pfsense, opnsense, FreeBSD, etc) and just decided I needed a new project so I picked up a new SuperMicro Intel N3700 board with 4 - Intel I210-AT gigabit ports on it to build a router in a box project.  If I could get past the watchdog timeouts that randomly occur (under higher traffic load), it would be great.  Seems, from google, that this all started with FreeBSD 10.1 or so.

When trying pfsense, I looked and saw the driver was 2.4.0 but Intel has an updated driver of 2.4.3 but I don't know if that will fix anything or not (and I don't yet know how to compile it and insert it into a running system - I may have to install FreeBSD in a VM, compile it there, and then transport it over).  I was hoping FreeBSD 10.2 would have the commit changes but doesn't appear to be.

Again, thanks for the help. :)

Seems that there has been a patch commit that's not made it into FreeBSD yet that should fix this issue.

https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3192

Hello,

Can someone give the version of the Intel igbt driver (gigabit Intel NIC driver for multiple chipsets including I210AT) used in the FreeBSD 10.2 version of Opnsense?  Seems there is an unresolved hanging issue with 10.1 in which a watchdog timeout occurs (seems related to TSO) and it occurs (from Google searching) across platforms using FreeBSD 10.1 (pfsense, opnsense, FREENAS, etc).

The 10.1 driver seems to be 2.4.0 whereas Intel's latest (July of 2015) is 2.4.3.

I would be tempted to try the Opnsense 10.2 version if the driver is newer in hopes to solve the watchdog timeout issue on Intel NIC's.

Nevermind:  Seems that this is still open and also occurs in version 10.2:  https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=1319.0 .  Seems the commit to fix this on the older Intel cards was just submitted (em) but not sure if the new stuff (igbt) will be fixed or not.  Also not sure which version of FreeBSD it will appear in.

Sorry for the thread clutter... :(