jmarin@embedtronics.fi wrote:

> Has anything been done to fix the nfe freeze problem which causes the
> packet reception to stop completely?  The reception may or may not
> resume after a few minutes.  This problem forced me to install a PCI
> networking card and stop using nfe.

I haven't used nfe(4) with so heavy load, but there are
some fixes for timeout problems recently:
http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/pci/if_nfe.c
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Izumi Tsutsui