broken re(4)

[Gerrit Kühn]

On Wed, 28 May 2008 09:28:23 +0900 Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh at gmail.com> wrote
about Re: broken re(4):


PY>  > Any hints what I should do next to find the culprit?

PY> There were similiar reports on this issue. It seems that it's very
PY> hard to make re(4) work so many RTL8168/8169/8111 revisions without
PY> documentation as different revisions require different workaround.
PY> Anyway, would you try this one? The patch was generated against HEAD
PY> but it would apply to STABLE too.
PY> http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/re/re.HEAD.20080519

Well, I tested this one with some success:
After booting the patched system, my re0-Interface was working fine, at
least I could transmit GBs of data without getting the problems mentioned
before. :-) 
However, on the other hand re1 did not work at all :-(. The interface was
up and running, has an IP and everything, but I could not get a single
packet from or to it.
After trying everything I could think of, I rebooted the machine. Then
both interfaces were working again. Therefore, the errors described above
when transmitting large amounts of data are back. :-(

Somehow the two interfaces seem to interfer with each other. Can I provide
further information for fixing this?


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