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Date:      Fri, 20 Jun 2008 06:07:03 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Alexander Sack <pisymbol@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Network Instability when upgrading to 4GB of RAM
Message-ID:  <18029156.post@talk.nabble.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080620001909.GB40128@cdnetworks.co.kr>
References:  <944074f30804191423v93d1acet9246269e4072d46a@mail.gmail.com> <944074f30805022124n31e28fddkea80fcc78cbd8bc6@mail.gmail.com> <18015461.post@talk.nabble.com> <20080620001909.GB40128@cdnetworks.co.kr>

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Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
> 
> 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)
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>  > > 
>  > 
>  > 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.
> 
> 

Pyun:

Understood.  I'm on a stock 7.0-RELEASE box.  Let me upgrade to the latest
7.0-STABLE driver and will update this thread if I still see issues (if I
do, I'll try to find some time to debug them).

Thanks again!

-aps
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