FreeBSD 7.1 Breaks re and rl Network Interface Drivers

[Walter Venable]

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Brian Duke <brian at box201.com> wrote:
> Walter,
> I too have these two interfaces and was forced to disconnect my rl0 in order
> for my static ip on re0 to route correctly. If both interfaces are up on the
> same network even if both are different IPs all routing stopped. I was
> planning on doing a little load balancing project. I didn't due to lack of
> time.
>
> #ifconfig rl0 down
>
> left my interface up and active. The interface would not change its IP
> through sysinstalls' enable networking interfaces. I could do this:
>
> #ifconfig rl0 inet 192.168.1.150
>
> But my routing was messed up at that point and was confirmed via:
>
> #netstat -r
>
> The return information looked like it was stuck or lost and the command
> never finished.
> I had to disconnect one or the other but both simply showed no routes. I
> disconnected rl0 because it was a 10/100m interface and left my re0 gig
> interface connected rebooted and the routes and networking is again stable.
> In the interest of full disclosure rl0 is on the motherboard re0 is a pci
> card.

Brian, was this happening to you on 7.0 also or just 7.1?