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Date:      Thu, 30 Nov 2006 22:05:24 +0100
From:      Ed Schouten <ed@fxq.nl>
To:        Bill Paul <wpaul@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        pyunyh@gmail.com, stable@freebsd.org, net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: re(4) needs promisc to work properly
Message-ID:  <20061130210524.GY16100@hoeg.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20061130184721.F14E716A407@hub.freebsd.org>
References:  <20061129232331.8E55016A415@hub.freebsd.org> <20061130184721.F14E716A407@hub.freebsd.org>

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* Bill Paul <wpaul@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote:
> > It's more likely a problem with the multicast filter programming.
> > IPv6 is all about the multicasting (neighbord discovery depends on it
> > to work correctly). I can't explain why it's not working though.
> > I've tested the sample 8168B/8111B cards that RealTek sent me, and I
> > didn't have any multicast problems with them.
> >=20
> > -Bill
>=20
> I guess I wasn't diligent enough in my testing. Upon closer inspection
> of the documentation, it appears RealTek abitrarily decided to
> reverse the order of the multicast hash registers in the PCIe parts:
> you have to write the hash table out in reverse order.
>=20
> I have no idea why they did this. In any case, I'm attaching a patch
> which should fix the problem.

It does. Thanks a lot. I still have some other minor issues with my
network interface by the way:

- Switching from and to promiscuous mode takes 7 seconds. All packets
  are dropped in the mean time.
- Fetching 100 Mbit through FTP uses a lot of interrupts (almost
  thousands).

Yours,
--=20
 Ed Schouten <ed@fxq.nl>
 WWW: http://g-rave.nl/

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