From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 13 23:05:05 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3B13106567A for ; Mon, 13 Dec 2010 23:05:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f49.google.com (mail-fx0-f49.google.com [209.85.161.49]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61DD28FC20 for ; Mon, 13 Dec 2010 23:05:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm19 with SMTP id 19so12759fxm.36 for ; Mon, 13 Dec 2010 15:05:04 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=0GXEBLRPJPJ6HZMUMmwk8vG1yR3NV/3Yj+BMAf6HBA4=; b=JAB04josNXwFVdC/ZFyt2IFfathN4J+IKmkXQRHSgOPzec3PsOJzWqWpMYQ4KTtpLa 2l9Pfl03hpjWoGMY9K7Y5Xi5IHx87oroe0GfD6ey29vUyLwSi4KZjHLeQqDeVaEDSK/6 NZltF3MhqodqWHTIC2mKK7I4WA6MQkYLLTGIo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=Dygcs4+YL5OmwHu4xhELP7fNump4dlEwSVjOenP3IMLs6aBmwfllLD14Dh1EkMHZh7 VCQri5OwsjwWURMLZ3eJSjhx4oGZwGTU8BFTrGYTs5dSJiFpVbV/zSeDRFDvWLg0oQa3 hQUDdKzYcYk/TA3yQjZgLpyjs5jzropkspnkU= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.103.4 with SMTP id i4mr680401fao.70.1292279741888; Mon, 13 Dec 2010 14:35:41 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.223.114.4 with HTTP; Mon, 13 Dec 2010 14:35:41 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <74092103-0155-4EA4-8AFC-1148C0E7993D@mac.com> References: <74092103-0155-4EA4-8AFC-1148C0E7993D@mac.com> Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 16:35:41 -0600 Message-ID: From: Adam Vande More To: Chuck Swiger Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, Gabor Radnai Subject: Re: Problem with re0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 23:05:05 -0000 On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Dec 13, 2010, at 11:54 AM, Gabor Radnai wrote: > > Realtek 8111 is not supported - that's the final conclusion? If so can > this be made clear in re driver manual? > > At least some people have reported the Realtek 8111 working for them. > > This said, Realtek's older 10/100 NICs were infamous for being slow, buggy > hardware that I'd choose to discard rather than install into a machine, and > their gigabit NICs aren't much better. Get a Intel em or Broadcom bce/bge > NIC instead. > I guess it depends on various conditions: re0@pci0:3:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x75811462 chip=0x816810ec rev=0x03 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Realtek Semiconductor' device = 'Gigabit Ethernet NIC(NDIS 6.0) (RTL8168/8111/8111c)' class = network subclass = ethernet I can sustain over 700 Mb transfers, and it does somewhat better than the bge nic I have which peaks at around 600Mb. Personally, I've never had great performance out of any Broadcom, but my experience is somewhat limited there and haven't used any relatively current chipsets. FreeBSD galacticdominator.com 8.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 8.2-PRERELEASE #5: Thu Nov 25 19:14:00 CST 2010 adam@galacticdominator.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 This nic has been working on the stable branch for over a year from when I aquired the system and I've never had an issue with it. -- Adam Vande More