FreeBSD 6.3-stable and if_re - stability problems?
Pyun YongHyeon
pyunyh at gmail.com
Mon Jan 28 00:22:27 PST 2008
On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 01:48:36PM +0100, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> 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.
>
I think re(4) in CURRENT have fixed these issues.
Would you try re(4) in CURRENT?
> 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
> --
> Regards,
> Torfinn Ingolfsen
>
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Regards,
Pyun YongHyeon
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