From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 5 01:29:28 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C5DA1065672 for ; Tue, 5 Jan 2010 01:29:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ryanjcole@me.com) Received: from asmtpout030.mac.com (asmtpout030.mac.com [17.148.16.105]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 049EE8FC0A for ; Tue, 5 Jan 2010 01:29:27 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Received: from [10.0.1.15] ([71.63.240.54]) by asmtp030.mac.com (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-8.01 (built Dec 16 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTPSA id <0KVQ00HVKZZPOZ50@asmtp030.mac.com> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:28:39 -0800 (PST) From: Ryan Coleman Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2010 18:28:36 -0600 Message-id: <3F26F8AA-D320-49F8-8DA2-9FC4EE80398C@me.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1077) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: RealTek 8168 issues X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 01:29:28 -0000 I have a RealTek 816x NIC in my FreeBSD 8.0 box. I did a full system install last night and at 2AM the NIC gave out. Now it's crapping out in minutes instead of hours. When I run /etc/rc.d/netif restart I get the normal processing data about my NICs and then this: re0: reset never completed! re0: PHY write failed re0: PHY write failed re0: PHY write failed re0: PHY write failed re0: PHY write failed And it proceeds to bring lo0 and re0 back up, but re0 has it's listed static IP but is not discoverable on the network. A reboot can temporarily fix this but I want to avoid rebooting every 4-6 hours automatically (for obvious reasons). I've found patches referencing 7.1 but not 8.0. I can post more details if you need, just point me where you need me to look for them. -- Ryan