FreeBSD 6.3-stable and if_re - stability problems?

Torfinn Ingolfsen torfinn.ingolfsen at broadpark.no
Sun Jan 27 04:48:39 PST 2008


Hello!

Is anybody having stability problems with if_re under FreeBSD
6.3-stable?
I know about PR kern/118719[1] but it doesn't look like the problem I'm
having - at least my machine doesn't panic.
My machine[2] runs FreeBSD 6.3-stable / amd64:
root at kg-vm# uname -a
FreeBSD kg-vm.kg4.no 6.3-STABLE FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE #1: Sun Jan 27 02:10:15 CET 2008     root at kg-vm.kg4.no:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP  amd64

The machine has an if_re interface:
root at kg-vm# pciconf -lv | grep -B 4 network
    subclass   = VGA
re0 at pci2:0:0:   class=0x020000 card=0x81aa1043 chip=0x816810ec rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'Realtek Semiconductor'
    device     = 'RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC'
    class      = network

It looks like the interface works, because it gets the ip
address and other dhcp parameters right. But when I try to pass traffic
over it, trsffic often just stops. Examples: ping by ip address,
csup'ing the ports. also ssh connections to the machine randomly hangs, or closes.

Ouch! The machine just rebooted. Perhaps this is kern/118719 after all.
Anything I can do to diagnose this problem further?
FWIW, I have FreeBSD 7.0 (RELENG_7) installed on another slice and that works nicely.

References:
1) PR kern/118719  http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=118719
2) my machine http://tingox.googlepages.com/asus_m2a-vm_hdmi_freebsd
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Regards, 
Torfinn Ingolfsen



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