sk0 problems

[Bjoern A. Zeeb]

On Sat, 17 Jul 2004, Tomas Randa wrote:

> i am using network card Marvell Semiconductor 88E1000 with sk driver on
> FreeBSD 5.2.1 on two machines, but i have problem with it.
> When a high traffic is going through the interface (about 6-9MB/s), the
> card stops working, no ping, no answer, no message in log. Sometimes
> help do ifconfig sk0 down and up, but sometimes not.

sometimes you have to wait a minute before doing the down/up to
actually make things working again; that depends but cannot say on
what. Had down/up withtinh 10 seconds and things worked fine but the
next time it just took the minute...


> Is driver broken?

it's known to have not-so-correct locking. Check the mailing list
archive for a patch from Doug White from the last 6 weeks or so; that
should help a bit.

Apart from that there might be more issues as people with special
brands or special chip-on-motherboards seem to see more problems.
Check the archives for these postings too (amd64, net, current from
the last two months)

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