Realtek re(4) driver

[Rodney W. Grimes]

> David Wolfskill wrote:
> >> 	I use a diskless workstation. With re driver provided by FreeBSD kernel
> >> (9/10/11.x), system randomly crashed because ethernet driver stalls (and
> >> datarate is always less than 300mbps). With official realtek driver
> >> (v194.01), system now runs as expected (with datarate up to 1 Gbps).
> 
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=166724

I have put that bug back on a public bug list (net at freebsd.org) so
that it appears in the nag mails sent out periodically.

I think I might have some of that hardware around here, but not sure
if it is that specific chip.  I do know that some "re(4)" cards
work just fine with FreeBSD, but others have issues, I suspect the
ones that have issues are ones that have hardware bugs that need
a specific software work around.

I do have this:
re0 at pci0:2:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x84321043 chip=0x816810ec rev=0x06 hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.'
    device     = 'RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller'

and I use that pretty regular, including NFS, but rarely push more than
1 or 2 gigabyte through it in any one operation.  (src tree size chunks go
in and out of that box).

> Anyone interested in taking the bounty or contributing to it? Perhaps
> the FreeBSD Foundation should jump in?
> 
> -- 
> Alex Dupre

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Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes at freebsd.org