Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 11:45:19 -0400 From: Michael Proto <mike@jellydonut.org> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Gerrit_K=FChn?= <gerrit@pmp.uni-hannover.de> Cc: "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: broken re(4) Message-ID: <483C2C8F.7070909@jellydonut.org> In-Reply-To: <20080527165232.2acbb00f.gerrit@pmp.uni-hannover.de> References: <20080527165232.2acbb00f.gerrit@pmp.uni-hannover.de>
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Gerrit Kühn wrote: > Hi folks, > > I have four identical ITX boards from Jetway here, each having two re(4) > onboard nics: > > re0@pci0:0:9:0: class=0x020000 card=0x10ec16f3 chip=0x816710ec rev=0x10 > hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Realtek Semiconductor' > device = 'RTL8169/8110 Family Gigabit Ethernet NIC' > class = network > subclass = ethernet > re1@pci0:0:11:0: class=0x020000 card=0x10ec16f3 chip=0x816710ec > rev=0x10 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Realtek Semiconductor' > device = 'RTL8169/8110 Family Gigabit Ethernet NIC' > class = network > subclass = ethernet > atapci0@pci0:0:15:0: class=0x01018f card=0x31491106 chip=0x31491106 > rev=0x80 > > > I run FreeBSD 7-stable from early March 08 on three of these > machines and noticed no problems with networking with that so far. > Some days ago I installed a fourth machine with 7-stable from early May > (and some days later -because of the problems described below- to May > 17th). With this new machine I see several networking problems. The most > prominent are these two: > > - heavy networking traffic (in this case backup via tar & NFS) causes hangs > for about 10s-30s and sometimes also leads to watchdog timeouts: > May 27 09:04:07 protoserve kernel: re0: watchdog timeout > May 27 09:04:07 protoserve kernel: re0: link state changed to DOWN > May 27 09:04:10 protoserve kernel: re0: link state changed to UP > > - copying large files (more than some 100MB) via ssh/scp drops the > connection due to "corrupted MAC on input": > Disconnecting: Corrupted MAC on input. > lost connection > > In the latter case the networking traffic should actually not be that > high, because these are nanobsd systems which are transferring a new image > file (system update, 2GB) via ssh (so the bottleneck should be the write > speed of the CF card used to hold the system). > > > I do not see these problems with the old codebase from March 08 on my old > machines. The cvs shows a large MFC for the re-driver in April, so I > guessed something came in there which broke things here. Therefore I > downgraded the new system to a cvs codebase from March 1st, but the > problems persist. They also exist on both interfaces. memtest86 is running > for hours now without finding something wrong. > > Any hints what I should do next to find the culprit? > I'm running 6.3 on the exact same Jetway board at home, and while I haven't been bitten by the DOWN/UP issue I have seen the occasional "corrupted MAC on input" error when doing an ssh/scp. Seems to have simmered-down since moving from 6.3-RELEASE to 6.3-STABLE (last supped/rebuilt on 5/6/08). Note this is using only one of the 2 on-board NICs. I disabled the 2nd one in the BIOS as I don't need it at the moment. -Proto
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