Realtek re(4) driver

[BERTRAND Joël]

Gary Jennejohn a écrit :
> On Wed, 11 Apr 2018 00:05:59 +0100
> Steven Hartland <killing at multiplay.co.uk> wrote:
> 
>> Try:
>> http://12244.wpc.azureedge.net/8012244/drivers/rtdrivers/cn/nic/0007-rtl_bsd_drv_v194.01.tgz
>>
>> May or many not work depending on if its a per client download URL
>>
> 
> This is the old if_rl driver by Bill Paul from 1998.  Hard to
> believe it's really superior to the newer version, which is also
> based on later code from Bill Paul.
> 
> [snip]

	I use a diskless workstation. With re driver provided by FreeBSD kernel
(9/10/11.x), system randomly crashed because ethernet driver stalls (and
datarate is always less than 300mbps). With official realtek driver
(v194.01), system now runs as expected (with datarate up to 1 Gbps).

	Internal re driver is broken on this ethernet adapter (maybe on several
other adapters) :

re0 at pci0:2:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x78511462 chip=0x816810ec rev=0x0c
hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.'
    device     = 'RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller'
    class      = network
    subclass   = ethernet

	Regards,

	JKB