packet loss with re(4)

[Pyun YongHyeon]

On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 11:55:06PM +0100, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
 > On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 14:44:49 -0500
 > Dan Langille <dan at langille.org> wrote:
 > 
 > > With FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE, I'm finding significant packet loss  
 > > (sometimes 85%).
 > > If I insert an Intel nic (fxp), there is nil packet loss with
 > > similar tests (ping -c 100).
 > 
 > Perhaps the recent MFC's for re helps?
 > see 
 > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/re/if_re.c
 > 
 > I have just upgraded my machine[1] to the latest 7-stable,so it is still
 > too early to tell if re(4) is stable now.

Unfortunately 7-stable does not have latest fixes for re(4).
For 7-stable or 7.0-RELEASE use the following files.
http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/re/7.0R/if_re.c
http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/re/7.0R/if_rlreg.h

For 6.3-RELEASE, use the following patch.
http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/re/6.3R/re.busdma.patch

 > 
 > References:
 > 1) http://tingox.googlepages.com/asus_m2a-vm_hdmi_freebsd
 > -- 
 > Regards,
 > Torfinn Ingolfsen

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Regards,
Pyun YongHyeon