kern/144689: [re] TCP transfer corruption using if_re

[Steven Noonan]

On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 12:31:22PM -0700, Steven Noonan wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> > The real issue looks like PHY read failure which can result in
>> > unexpected behavior. I don't see rgephy(4) related message here,
>> > would you show me the output of "devinfo -rv | grep phy"?
>> > By chance are you using PCMCIA ethernet controller?
>>
>> I am. It's a Netgear GA511. I think I said in my original post that it
>> was connected via cardbus.
>>
>> xerxes ~ # devinfo -rv | grep phy
>>                     rgephy0 pnpinfo oui=0x732 model=0x11 rev=0x3 at phyno=1
>>                 inphy0 pnpinfo oui=0xaa00 model=0x33 rev=0x0 at phyno=1
>>
>
> Ok, thanks for the info. Did the controller ever work before?
> Or you start seeing the issue on 8.0-RELEASE?
>

The last time I had FreeBSD on this machine was with 7.0-RELEASE (or
7.1?), and I didn't have the GA511 at that time, so I don't know
whether it worked before or not.

(Incidentally, on my other machine, I get "PHY read failure" all the
time with its Marvell Yukon controller [if_msk])

- Steven