amd64/119047: Not correct working RealTek 8168/8111B PCIe

[Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri]

Works for me too!

Can you put it in RELENG_7 since RELENG_7_0 is there?



On Dec 28, 2007 10:43 PM, Mario Pavlov <freebsd at abv.bg> wrote:
>         Gigabit Ethernet
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>  >On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 04:21:55PM +0100, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
>  > > Hmm, this sounds kind of like the problem I have with my Asus M2A-VM HDMI motherboard. Also running FreeBSD / amd64 (currently 7.0-beta4).
>  > > More details below.
>  >
>  >For users who are suffering from re(4) instability issues please try
>  >the following patch. The patch shall fix bus_dma(9) issues and will
>  >enable TSO capability as well as 64bit dma support.
>  >
>  >http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/re/re.HEAD.patch
>  >or
>  >http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/re/if_re.c
>  >http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/re/if_rlreg.h
>  >
>  >Please report back the result as I have plan to commit the patch
>  >after 7.0 goes out.
>  >
>  > >
>  > > On Thu, 27 Dec 2007 12:16:00 +0200 (EET)
>  > > Mario Pavlov <freebsd at abv.bg> wrote:
>  > >
>  > > > Hi,
>  > > > I'm experiencing exactly the same problem
>  > > > after reboot everything is OK but after some time all network
>  > > > transfers are getting worse and worse. The packet loss goes above 50%
>  > >
>  > > Can you see errors with 'netstat -i'? In my case, neither 'netstat -i' nor 'netstat  -m' reports any signs of trouble.
>  > >
>  > > My problem is that ssh connections _to_ the machine closes unexpectedly with "bad packet length" or somesuch.
>  > > Any ssh connections _from_ the machine seems to be unaffected.
>  > >
>  > > > you can easily reproduce this, without waiting days, with the
>  > > > fallowing steps:
>  > >
>  > > I must try this.
>  > >
>  > > > I've tried this with windows and it appears to be working
>  > > > there...haven't tried it with linux I've tried different kernel
>  > > > configuration but the result is still the same I've tried to listen
>  > > > with tcpdump but it seemed normal except for the packet loss (I can
>  > > > see all requests but not all responses are returned)
>  > > >
>  > > > my motherboard is Asus P5B with chipset Intel P965 and integrated
>  > > > RealTek 8168/8111B PCIe Gigabit Ethernet
>  > >
>  > > What does 'pciconf -lv | grep -B 4 network' show?
>  > > On my Asus M2A-VM HDMI motherboard I get this:
>  > > tingo at kg-vm$ pciconf -lv | grep -B 4 network
>  > >     subclass   = VGA
>  > > re0 at pci0:2:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x81aa1043 chip=0x816810ec rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
>  > >     vendor     = 'Realtek Semiconductor'
>  > >     device     = 'RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC'
>  > >     class      = network
>  > >
>  > > Hmm, ethernet is probably better:
>  > > tingo at kg-vm$ pciconf -lv | grep -B 4 ethernet
>  > > re0 at pci0:2:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x81aa1043 chip=0x816810ec rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
>  > >     vendor     = 'Realtek Semiconductor'
>  > >     device     = 'RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC'
>  > >     class      = network
>  > >     subclass   = ethernet
>  > >
>  > > The machine is running 7.0-beta4:
>  > > tingo at kg-vm$ uname -a
>  > > FreeBSD kg-vm.kg4.no 7.0-BETA4 FreeBSD 7.0-BETA4 #0: Sun Dec  2 16:34:41 UTC 2007     root at myers.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
>  > >
>  > >
>  > > --
>  > > Torfinn
>  >
>  >--
>  >Regards,
>  >Pyun YongHyeon
>
> works for me, thanks! :)
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