Unable to get RealTek 8139C+ to work with re(4) under FreeBSD
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Pyun YongHyeon
pyunyh at gmail.com
Mon Aug 14 12:41:36 UTC 2006
On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 08:03:35PM +0800, Dinesh Nair wrote:
>
>
> On 08/14/06 19:09 Pyun YongHyeon said the following:
> >really sucks and need much more CPU power to saturate the link.
> >So I don't think it's good idea to make rl(4) serve 8139C+.
>
> perhaps, but re(4) doesn't work at the moment on this chipset, and i'd
> rather have something which works, albeit a little poorly, than something
> which doesn't.
>
Ok.
> >Yes. What `ident /boot/kernel/if_re.ko` shows?
>
> $FreeBSD: src/sys/dev/re/if_re.c,v 1.46.2.19 2006/08/07 02:38:07 yongari
> Exp $
>
> and the latest if_rlreg.c which i pulled down shows,
>
> $FreeBSD: src/sys/pci/if_rlreg.h,v 1.51.2.7 2006/08/01 17:36:50 wpaul Exp $
>
> i'm not using the loadable modules though, and am building the re(4) device
> into the kernel directly.
>
> the symptoms remain the same, i.e. IP traffic doesn't flow at all, though
> 'arp -an' does show the ethernet address of the other box attempting to
> ping this.
>
Ok, this is important thing. It means Rx part works as expected.
Can you see tcpdump output on Tx side while ping command is in
progress?
> the OP at
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2006-August/027356.html
> mentioned that it was working fine before breakage was introduced
> relatively recently (~ 2 weeks ago), and thus something's changed in the
> interim which is causing this to happen.
>
--
Regards,
Pyun YongHyeon
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