broken re(4)

[Daniele Bastianini]

Il giorno 27/mag/08, alle ore 16:52, Gerrit Kühn ha scritto:

> Hi folks,
>
> I have four identical ITX boards from Jetway here, each having two  
> re(4)
> onboard nics:
>
> re0 at pci0:0:9:0: class=0x020000 card=0x10ec16f3 chip=0x816710ec  
> rev=0x10
> hdr=0x00 vendor     = 'Realtek Semiconductor'
>     device     = 'RTL8169/8110 Family Gigabit Ethernet NIC'
>     class      = network
>     subclass   = ethernet
> re1 at pci0:0:11:0:        class=0x020000 card=0x10ec16f3 chip=0x816710ec
> rev=0x10 hdr=0x00 vendor     = 'Realtek Semiconductor'
>     device     = 'RTL8169/8110 Family Gigabit Ethernet NIC'
>     class      = network
>     subclass   = ethernet
> atapci0 at pci0:0:15:0:    class=0x01018f card=0x31491106 chip=0x31491106
> rev=0x80
>
>
> I run FreeBSD 7-stable from early March 08 on three of these
> machines and noticed no problems with networking with that so far.
> Some days ago I installed a fourth machine with 7-stable from early  
> May
> (and some days later -because of the problems described below- to May
> 17th). With this new machine I see several networking problems. The  
> most
> prominent are these two:
>
> - heavy networking traffic (in this case backup via tar & NFS)  
> causes hangs
> for about 10s-30s and sometimes also leads to watchdog timeouts:
> May 27 09:04:07 protoserve kernel: re0: watchdog timeout
> May 27 09:04:07 protoserve kernel: re0: link state changed to DOWN
> May 27 09:04:10 protoserve kernel: re0: link state changed to UP
>
> - copying large files (more than some 100MB) via ssh/scp drops the
> connection due to "corrupted MAC on input":
> Disconnecting: Corrupted MAC on input.
> lost connection

I had the same problem.
I fixed it (for now) making a buildworld with
*default date=2008.03.01.00.00.00 in my src csup configuration.

I'm not so skilled to investigate in the sources but the problem is  
after this date.

Regards
   Daniele Bastianini