Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 03:12:05 +0200 From: Eugene Butusov <ebutusov@gmail.com> To: FreeBSD-STABLE-LIST <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Realtek RTL8110 (SB) watchdog timeout. Message-ID: <489262E5.3010304@gmail.com>
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Hi,
After updating from 7.0-RELEASE to STABLE (around 15/08) my NIC
refuses to handle large file transfers.
pciconf -lv
re0@pci0:4:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x001a6409 chip=0x816910ec
rev=0x10 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Realtek Semiconductor'
device = 'RTL8110SB Single-Chip Gigabit LOM Ethernet Controller'
class = network
subclass = ethernet
Log messages:
re: watchdog timeout
re: link changed to DOWN
re: link changed to UP
When someone tried to copy large (i.e. 700MB) file from samba share
(local gigabit network) or ftp (same LAN),
the NIC was reseted. For a while host was not accesible from the
network, and then it came back with log messages shown above.
I've tried to tune samba socket options (SO_RCVBUF=16384
SO_SNDBUF=16384), and this fixed the problem for samba users. One
interesting thing: copying file to windows XP machine worked fine,
while Vista (SP1 x64) caused the problem.
What solved the problem definitely was disabling TSO for re0 (ifconfig
re0 -tso). I haven't notice any performance drop and it works fine,
but I'm just curious what happened to the 'good' driver from 7.0-RELEASE.
Best regards,
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