kern/105937: if_re watchdog timeout problem and network down

[Remko Lodder]

The following reply was made to PR kern/105937; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Remko Lodder <remko at elvandar.org>
To: NieBaopeng <niebaopeng at gmail.com>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/105937: if_re watchdog timeout problem and network down
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 09:03:51 +0100

 On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 05:11:01AM +0000, NieBaopeng wrote:
 > 
 > FreeBSD notany.kmip.net 6.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #0: Tue Nov 28 02:06:46 UTC 2006     notany at .localdomain:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/mykernel  i386
 > >Description:
 > This is my box hardware:
 > 
 > Abit Aw8d + PentiumD930 +1 G ram
 > 
 > The pciconf -lv output about the re hardware :
 > 
 > rl0 at pci3:0:0:   class=0x020000 card=0x240b147b chip=0x816810ec rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
 >     vendor   = 'Realtek Semiconductor'
 >     class    = network
 >     subclass = ethernet
 > rl1 at pci4:0:0:   class=0x020000 card=0x240b147b chip=0x816810ec rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
 >     vendor   = 'Realtek Semiconductor'
 >     class    = network
 >     subclass = ethernet
 > 
 > 
 > When I use the default if_re driver for this hardware , I often get the 
 > "Nov 27 19:41:37  kernel: re1: watchdog timeout
 > Nov 27 19:49:13  kernel: re1: watchdog timeout
 > Nov 27 19:49:20  kernel: re1: watchdog timeout
 > Nov 27 19:49:28  kernel: re1: watchdog timeout
 > Nov 27 19:52:28  kernel: re1: watchdog timeout
 > Nov 27 23:37:09  kernel: re1: watchdog timeout
 > Nov 28 01:03:19  kernel: re1: watchdog timeout
 > Nov 28 01:21:08  kernel: re1: watchdog timeout
 > Nov 28 01:24:45  kernel: re1: watchdog timeout
 > Nov 28 01:27:22  kernel: re1: watchdog timeout"
 > 
 > And Network is down.
 > I think That should be fixed.
 > >How-To-Repeat:
 > Use the default driver , then will get the output and the network will down.
 > >Fix:
 > Use The Realtek.com's driver for freebsd will slove the problem. 
 > >Release-Note:
 > >Audit-Trail:
 > >Unformatted:
 
 Goodmorning,
 
 	Can you please first verify this with freebsd-net? (http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net)
 	to see whether someone also has this issue, perhaps it has been solved already etc.
 
 	From my point of view, this currently is not a problem but undesired functionality. If
 	the discussion on -net@ proves that this is a problem (and should be fixed); please head
 	back to me and I will be happy to add more information to the audit trail and reopen the
 	PR (I will be closing this in a minute).
 
 	Do not feel offended please, I am just trying to follow the right lines to insert PR's
 	into the system (they should be researched first and verified and then added to the PR
 	database), apart from that you will most likely get a quicker response on the mailinglist
 	then on the PR list.
 
 	Thanks.
 	Remko
 -- 
 Kind regards,
 
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