From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 29 19:13:07 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56B0516A41B for ; Sun, 29 Jul 2007 19:13:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lofi@freebsd.org) Received: from mail-in-15.arcor-online.net (mail-in-15.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.55]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C710413C46C for ; Sun, 29 Jul 2007 19:13:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lofi@freebsd.org) Received: from mail-in-04-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-04-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.16]) by mail-in-15.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08993457F9 for ; Sun, 29 Jul 2007 21:13:05 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail-in-04.arcor-online.net (mail-in-04.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.44]) by mail-in-04-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF500ABAEC for ; Sun, 29 Jul 2007 21:13:04 +0200 (CEST) Received: from lofi.dyndns.org (dslb-084-061-143-083.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.143.83]) by mail-in-04.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AE7F1F7064 for ; Sun, 29 Jul 2007 21:13:03 +0200 (CEST) Received: from kiste.my.domain (root@kiste.my.domain [192.168.8.11]) by lofi.dyndns.org (8.13.8/8.13.3) with ESMTP id l6TJD1P6022732 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Sun, 29 Jul 2007 21:13:01 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from lofi@freebsd.org) Received: from kiste.my.domain (lofi@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kiste.my.domain (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id l6TJD1Xa002545 for ; Sun, 29 Jul 2007 21:13:01 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from lofi@freebsd.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by kiste.my.domain (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id l6TJD1Ni002544 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Sun, 29 Jul 2007 21:13:01 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from lofi@freebsd.org) X-Authentication-Warning: kiste.my.domain: lofi set sender to lofi@freebsd.org using -f From: Michael Nottebrock To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 21:12:56 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 X-Face: g:jG2\O{-yqD1x?DG2lU1)(v%xffR"p8Nz(w/*)YEUO\Hn%mGi&-!+rq$&r64,=?utf-8?q?fuP=7E=3Bbw=5C=0A=09=5EQdX?=@v~HEAi?NaE8SU]}.oeYSjN84Fe{M(ahZ.(i+lxyP; pr)2[%mGbkY'RmM>=?utf-8?q?+mg3Y=24ip=0A=091?=@Z>[EUaE7tjJ=1DRs~:!uSd""d~:/Er3rpQA%ze|bp>S MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1429025.e96ZJUYYFQ"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200707292113.01023.lofi@freebsd.org> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.91.1/3806/Sun Jul 29 20:19:59 2007 on mail-in-04.arcor-online.net X-Virus-Status: Clean Subject: Various problems with re(4) on a PCIe 8168/8111B onboard NIC X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 19:13:07 -0000 --nextPart1429025.e96ZJUYYFQ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline After recently updating the windows drivers (I dual-boot Windows XP on the= =20 machine the NIC is in), I hit this problem:=20 http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_RTL8168#Troubleshooting which affects re(4)= =20 like it does the Linux drivers described in the above link.=20 I already wrote the Realtek technical support about it since their "own"=20 =46reeBSD driver (a hacked rl(4) that does not support any of the chip's=20 advanced features) does not manage to power up the PHY on its own either -= =20 neither does the motherboard's BIOS when trying to netboot. The other problem is that I have at least two applications misbehaving when= =20 rxcsum/txcsum is enabled:=20 =2D The Linux Second Life client (yes, yes, I know, but it is nice for show= ing=20 off GLX and it is really really good at generating network traffic) will=20 cease to receive data after about a minute or so - turning off rcxsum/txcsu= m=20 will mend it on the spot. =2D A Fedora Core 4 running in Qemu, networked with bridge(4) and tap(4), c= annot=20 receive an ip address via DHCP. Interestingly, this even occurs if=20 rxcsum/txcsum was already turned off before launching Qemu - to make it wor= k,=20 I have to cycle rxcsum/txcsum once. Might be related to promiscuous mode. I realise that both of these make awful test cases, but so far they are the= =20 only applications I found to expose those problems. This is on FreeBSD kiste 6.2-STABLE FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #4: Sat Jul 28 14:11= :23=20 CEST 2007 root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/KISTE-SMP i386. The kernel source= s=20 are up to date as of 2007-07-27. The NIC is re0: port 0xd800-0xd8= ff=20 mem 0xfbfff000-0xfbffffff irq 36 at device 0.0 on pci3 / re0@pci3:0:0:=20 class=3D0x020000 card=3D0x81681849 chip=3D0x816810ec rev=3D0x01 hdr=3D0x00. =2D-=20 ,_, | Michael Nottebrock | lofi@freebsd.org (/^ ^\) | FreeBSD - The Power to Serve | http://www.freebsd.org \u/ | K Desktop Environment on FreeBSD | http://freebsd.kde.org --nextPart1429025.e96ZJUYYFQ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBGrOa5Xhc68WspdLARAiU9AJ9qDY0v08sPxdFa94+Th3xImQM/qgCbBEhO AQv9LUGAybULmiFuBT/v+RU= =ftaE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1429025.e96ZJUYYFQ--