From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 19 19:08:36 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7642E16A4C0 for ; Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:08:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [17.250.248.89]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0FF643FB1 for ; Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:08:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jjrushford@mac.com) Received: from mac.com (smtpin08-en2 [10.13.10.153]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/MantshX 2.0) with ESMTP id h7K28Z56023832 for ; Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:08:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.10.102] (12-203-252-35.client.attbi.com [12.203.252.35]) (authenticated bits=0) by mac.com (Xserve/8.12.9/MantshX 2.0) with ESMTP id h7K28Glc020627 for ; Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:08:22 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.1.1.2418 Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 20:08:13 -0600 From: "John J. Rushford" To: Message-ID: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Subject: Is rl broken? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 02:08:36 -0000 Greetings, I cvsup'd and rebuilt a FreeBSD 4.8 system last Friday after receiving the realpath security advisory. The machine is remote and the NIC uses the rl driver. After booting the machine I had no network connectivity. The person at the remote site says the boot was normal and he could see that the NIC was properly configured but he could not ping it and I could not login. We booted off kernel.old and everything came up fine. I browsed the stable list here and noticed someone else had the same problem with the rl driver, "rl(4) is broken in stable". Could not see any problems at all with the boot just the nic appears not to be working. Its a RealTek 8139 10/100BaseTX. I re-built the kernel again yesterday after again cvsuping the source on Monday August 18th. Thanks John Rushford jjr@alisa.org