Intel DG31PR and RTL8168/8111 issue

[Pyun YongHyeon]

On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 07:49:58AM -0800, Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote:
 > 
 > Hello Pyun,
 > 
 > ----- Original Message ----
 > > From: Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh at gmail.com>
 > > To: Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri <wearabnet at yahoo.ca>
 > > Cc: FreeBSD STABLE <freebsd-stable at freebsd.org>
 > > Sent: Friday, December 7, 2007 4:01:42 AM
 > > Subject: Re: Intel DG31PR and RTL8168/8111 issue
 > > 
 > > On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 11:20:19AM -0800, Abdullah Ibn Hamad
 > > Al-Marri
 > > 
 >  wrote:
 > > 
 > > [...]
 > > 
 > >  > 
 > >  > Shall I issue more commands and send it?
 > >  > 
 > > 
 > > I'd like to know whether multicat filtering really works on your
 > > hardware. It would be even better if you can test it on IPv6
 > > environments. Just assign an IPv6 address to your re0 and send
 > > a ICMPv6 node information DNS name query from other hosts.
 > > For exmaple, 'ping6 -w ff02::1%foo0' command will report hostname
 > > of host with re0 interface if multicast filtering works(Change
 > > foo0 with interface instance of a driver.)
 > > 
 > > -- 
 > > Regards,
 > > Pyun YongHyeon
 > 
 > I wish I could do that, but my ISP doesn't offer IPV6 space.
 > 

I see.

 > Could you please make this patch in HEAD then mergge it to RELENG_7, so users with this nic wont drop FreeBSD 7.0 when it is out because the nic wont work out of box at least for IPV4 users.
 > 

Patch committed to HEAD. But I'm not sure how re@ thinks about MFC as
multicast filtering wasn't tested for this revision of RTL8168.

 > Again, I appreciate your help, and the great support for the community you offer. :-)
 > 

No problem. Thanks for your testing!

-- 
Regards,
Pyun YongHyeon