Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2013 09:06:50 +0000 (UTC) From: Hiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org> To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable-8@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r251489 - stable/8/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/errata Message-ID: <201306070906.r5796oAp031504@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: hrs Date: Fri Jun 7 09:06:50 2013 New Revision: 251489 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/251489 Log: Document a bge(4) issue. Modified: stable/8/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/errata/article.xml Modified: stable/8/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/errata/article.xml ============================================================================== --- stable/8/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/errata/article.xml Fri Jun 7 09:03:56 2013 (r251488) +++ stable/8/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/errata/article.xml Fri Jun 7 09:06:50 2013 (r251489) @@ -206,6 +206,23 @@ <sect1 id="open-issues"> <title>Open Issues</title> + <para>[20130607] The &man.bge.4; network interface driver has an + issue when TSO (TCP Segmentation Offload) is enabled. It causes + intermittent reset and re-initialization.</para> + + <para>A workaround is disabling the TSO feature. One can disable + it by adding the following line into the &man.rc.conf.5; + file:</para> + + <programlisting>ifconfig_<replaceable>bge0</replaceable>="-tso"</programlisting> + + <para>or by using the &man.ifconfig.8; utility manually:</para> + + <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>ifconfig <replaceable>bge0</replaceable> -tso</userinput></screen> + + <para>A patch to fix this issue will be released as an Errata + Notice.</para> + <para>[20130606] The &man.fxp.4; network interface driver may not work well with the &man.dhclient.8; utility. More specifically, if the <filename>/etc/rc.conf</filename> has the following
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