tcpi/ip dies at random times

[Pyun YongHyeon]

On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 01:49:50AM +0000, Aryeh Friedman wrote:
 > > I'm not sure re(4) was broken here but here is a WIP version.
 > > Would you give it spin?
 > > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/re/re.HEAD.patch
 > 
 > Made it worse... now "all" (the two tested below, but no other sites
 > where also tested) firefox (2.0.0.7 on gnome2/xorg7.3) pages that load
 > multiple objects freeze up... I didn't try any other app that has
 > multiple connections but I think it jsut can't handle multiple
 > connections from the same app (cvsup works though).
 > 
 > Test sites gmail and http://eztvefnet.org/frontpage.php
 > 
 > Also significant increase in latency and number of interrupts
 > 

The patch might have a bug for checksum offload handling.
How about disabling checksum offload?
(i.e. ifconfig re0 -rxcsum -txcsum)

 > 
 > >
 > > It's possible that you have RTL8211 PHY and rgephy(4) needs patches
 > > to support the PHY. If above patch doesn't help try patch at the
 > > following URL.
 > > http://www.f.csce.kyushu-u.ac.jp/~shigeaki/software/rgephy.20070328.fbsd7.patch
 > >

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Regards,
Pyun YongHyeon