Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 22:05:24 +0100 From: Ed Schouten <ed@fxq.nl> To: Bill Paul <wpaul@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: pyunyh@gmail.com, stable@freebsd.org, net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: re(4) needs promisc to work properly Message-ID: <20061130210524.GY16100@hoeg.nl> In-Reply-To: <20061130184721.F14E716A407@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20061129232331.8E55016A415@hub.freebsd.org> <20061130184721.F14E716A407@hub.freebsd.org>
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--1rohIOZGhsaeEmnk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable * Bill Paul <wpaul@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote: > > It's more likely a problem with the multicast filter programming. > > IPv6 is all about the multicasting (neighbord discovery depends on it > > to work correctly). I can't explain why it's not working though. > > I've tested the sample 8168B/8111B cards that RealTek sent me, and I > > didn't have any multicast problems with them. > >=20 > > -Bill >=20 > I guess I wasn't diligent enough in my testing. Upon closer inspection > of the documentation, it appears RealTek abitrarily decided to > reverse the order of the multicast hash registers in the PCIe parts: > you have to write the hash table out in reverse order. >=20 > I have no idea why they did this. In any case, I'm attaching a patch > which should fix the problem. It does. Thanks a lot. I still have some other minor issues with my network interface by the way: - Switching from and to promiscuous mode takes 7 seconds. All packets are dropped in the mean time. - Fetching 100 Mbit through FTP uses a lot of interrupts (almost thousands). Yours, --=20 Ed Schouten <ed@fxq.nl> WWW: http://g-rave.nl/ --1rohIOZGhsaeEmnk Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFb0eU52SDGA2eCwURAoM1AJ9eIZ4NlxCeH7oNZRm/GVaQ8/yjxgCfRfZM vDVH65NDFked2+aaheiVKbU= =A6fs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --1rohIOZGhsaeEmnk--
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