Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 09:19:09 +0900 From: Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh@gmail.com> To: Alexander Sack <pisymbol@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Network Instability when upgrading to 4GB of RAM Message-ID: <20080620001909.GB40128@cdnetworks.co.kr> In-Reply-To: <18015461.post@talk.nabble.com> References: <944074f30804191423v93d1acet9246269e4072d46a@mail.gmail.com> <944074f30805022124n31e28fddkea80fcc78cbd8bc6@mail.gmail.com> <18015461.post@talk.nabble.com>
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On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 11:41:32AM -0700, Alexander Sack wrote: > > > > Paul Haddad wrote: > > > > All, > > As a follow up to myself I installed an Intel PCIe NIC and disabled the on > > board RTL based one and all my problems went away. Been running with 4GB > > installed for a couple days now with absolutely no network issues. So > > seems > > like there's some problem with RTL NICs and >= 4GB of RAM. > > -- > > Paul Haddad (paul.haddad@gmail.com paul@pth.com) > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > > > I have the EXACT same issues. I'm sorry for arriving late to this thread > but I was searching around and my onboard, re0, chip=0x816810ec, rev=0x01, > gets Bad Packet Length on some ssh connections I have. Basically I notice > this under some load (like while doing a portupgrade). > > I doubt its the memory, the notebook is brand spank'n new (I don't think its > ECC RAM but it could be). Based on this post it seems that there maybe a > bug in the RTL driver on 64-bit platforms? Anyone else see this? I may go > try to track this down myself. re(4) had long standing bus_dma(9) bugs. I think I fixed most of bus_dma related bugs in 7-stable. Some users still suffer from instability issues but I guess it's different one that came from lack of documentation of PCIe based controllers. If you are not running 7-stable, try it 7-stable first and let me know how it goes. -- Regards, Pyun YongHyeon
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