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Date:      Mon, 4 Dec 2006 23:53:00 +0100
From:      "Pietro Cerutti" <pietro.cerutti@gmail.com>
To:        "Marwan Sultan" <dead_line@hotmail.com>,  "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>,  freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Realtek (re(4)) Driver in 6.1
Message-ID:  <e572718c0612041453i3a903676q88345e64d82d5dd9@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <BAY104-F3518D42453FC7FDC4926459ADF0@phx.gbl>
References:  <e572718c0612041240y137277cav75b1034a849ee706@mail.gmail.com> <BAY104-F3518D42453FC7FDC4926459ADF0@phx.gbl>

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On 12/4/06, Marwan Sultan <dead_line@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Pietro,
Hello!

>   Yes its heavy load, and every few days my vr0 stops acting as DHCP and i
> find watchdog
>   timeout error..
Yep, those are the symptoms...

>   What is the solutions? (change the NICs? both?
>   And how to fix it! (console solutions? )
I'm sorry, I can't help you... I'm not (yet) able to play with the
if_re module code, and when I asked the same question a few years ago,
the only answer I got was: "Realtek sucks, go out and buy yourself a
real NIC!"
At the time they pointed out 3Com or Intel as good candidates, but
since my purpose was just to keep a SOHO server up, I never went out
and never bought myself a new nic ;-)

There's a discussion going on on freebsd-stable@ about the if_re
module [sorry for cross posting], and it seems there's really skilled
people taking part in the chat, so maybe they can give some [further]
advice....

>
>   Thank you.
Nope...

>
>    Marwan.


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