Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 21:42:32 +0900 From: Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh@gmail.com> To: Dinesh Nair <dinesh@alphaque.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unable to get RealTek 8139C+ to work with re(4) under FreeBSD 6.1 Message-ID: <20060814124232.GF36904@cdnetworks.co.kr> In-Reply-To: <44E06697.4090507@alphaque.com> References: <44E040CF.9080205@alphaque.com> <20060814103946.GC36904@cdnetworks.co.kr> <44E056BE.4080104@alphaque.com> <20060814110959.GD36904@cdnetworks.co.kr> <44E06697.4090507@alphaque.com>
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On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 08:03:35PM +0800, Dinesh Nair wrote: > > > On 08/14/06 19:09 Pyun YongHyeon said the following: > >really sucks and need much more CPU power to saturate the link. > >So I don't think it's good idea to make rl(4) serve 8139C+. > > perhaps, but re(4) doesn't work at the moment on this chipset, and i'd > rather have something which works, albeit a little poorly, than something > which doesn't. > Ok. > >Yes. What `ident /boot/kernel/if_re.ko` shows? > > $FreeBSD: src/sys/dev/re/if_re.c,v 1.46.2.19 2006/08/07 02:38:07 yongari > Exp $ > > and the latest if_rlreg.c which i pulled down shows, > > $FreeBSD: src/sys/pci/if_rlreg.h,v 1.51.2.7 2006/08/01 17:36:50 wpaul Exp $ > > i'm not using the loadable modules though, and am building the re(4) device > into the kernel directly. > > the symptoms remain the same, i.e. IP traffic doesn't flow at all, though > 'arp -an' does show the ethernet address of the other box attempting to > ping this. > Ok, this is important thing. It means Rx part works as expected. Can you see tcpdump output on Tx side while ping command is in progress? > the OP at > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2006-August/027356.html > mentioned that it was working fine before breakage was introduced > relatively recently (~ 2 weeks ago), and thus something's changed in the > interim which is causing this to happen. > -- Regards, Pyun YongHyeon
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