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
 > 

-- 
Regards,
Pyun YongHyeon


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