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) > > > _______________________________________________ > > > 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. > > 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 -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Network-Instability-when-upgrading-to-4GB-of-RAM-tp16788164p18029156.html Sent from the freebsd-net mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
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