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Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 14:44:49 -0500
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Subject: packet loss with re(4)
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With FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE, I'm finding significant packet loss  
(sometimes 85%).
If I insert an Intel nic (fxp), there is nil packet loss with similar  
tests (ping -c 100).

re0: <RealTek 8168/8111B PCIe Gigabit Ethernet> port 0xc800-0xc8ff  
mem 0xf9fff000-0xf9ffffff irq 17 at device 0.0 on pci1

I have seen a thread on current mentioning similar problems:

http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=862039+0+current/freebsd- 
current

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Dan Langille -- http://www.langille.org/
dan@langille.org