Unable to get RealTek 8139C+ to work with re(4) under FreeBSD 6.1

[Pyun YongHyeon]

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.
 > 

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Regards,
Pyun YongHyeon