FreeBSD 7.1 Breaks re and rl Network Interface Drivers

[Jung-uk Kim]

On Tuesday 13 January 2009 10:27 am, Dimitry Andric wrote:
> Reverting r180519 seems to solve the problem of not being able to
> send any packets.  It does not solve the other problem, which is
> that the interfaces can take a very long time to come up at boot
> time, e.g:
>
>   Setting hostuuid: 3ee65237-8025-11dc-9ab5-003018a6f1a8.
>   Setting hostid: 0xaaedab9a.
>   Mounting local file systems:.
>   Setting hostname: tensor.andric.com.
> [... pauses for 10 seconds here ...]
>   re0: link state changed to DOWN
>   re1: link state changed to DOWN
>   lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
> 	  inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
> 	  inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
> 	  inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
>   re0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0
> mtu 1500
> options=389b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,WOL_
>UCAST,WOL_MCAST,WOL_MAGIC> ether 00:30:18:a6:f1:a8
> 	  inet6 fe80::230:18ff:fea6:f1a8%re0 prefixlen 64 tentative
> scopeid 0x1 inet 87.251.56.140 netmask 0xffffffc0 broadcast
> 87.251.56.191 media: Ethernet autoselect (none)
> 	  status: no carrier
>   re1: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0
> mtu 1500
> options=389b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,WOL_
>UCAST,WOL_MCAST,WOL_MAGIC> ether 00:30:18:a6:f1:a9
> 	  inet6 fe80::230:18ff:fea6:f1a9%re1 prefixlen 64 tentative
> scopeid 0x2 inet 192.168.0.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast
> 192.168.0.255 media: Ethernet autoselect (none)
> 	  status: no carrier
> [...]
>
> (note also the "no carrier" just after upping those interfaces)

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Can you try one of the following patches?

-CURRENT:	http://people.freebsd.org/~jkim/re/re.current.diff
-STABLE:	http://people.freebsd.org/~jkim/re/re.stable.diff

These patches contain all patches suggested by me and yongari and an 
additional patch, which may (or may not) decrease the initial setup 
time.

Jung-uk Kim