svn commit: r251489 - stable/8/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/errata

Hiroki Sato hrs at FreeBSD.org
Fri Jun 7 09:06:50 UTC 2013


Author: hrs
Date: Fri Jun  7 09:06:50 2013
New Revision: 251489
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/251489

Log:
  Document a bge(4) issue.

Modified:
  stable/8/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/errata/article.xml

Modified: stable/8/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/errata/article.xml
==============================================================================
--- stable/8/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/errata/article.xml	Fri Jun  7 09:03:56 2013	(r251488)
+++ stable/8/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/errata/article.xml	Fri Jun  7 09:06:50 2013	(r251489)
@@ -206,6 +206,23 @@
   <sect1 id="open-issues">
     <title>Open Issues</title>
 
+    <para>[20130607] The &man.bge.4; network interface driver has an
+      issue when TSO (TCP Segmentation Offload) is enabled.  It causes
+      intermittent reset and re-initialization.</para>
+
+    <para>A workaround is disabling the TSO feature.  One can disable
+      it by adding the following line into the &man.rc.conf.5;
+      file:</para>
+
+    <programlisting>ifconfig_<replaceable>bge0</replaceable>="-tso"</programlisting>
+
+    <para>or by using the &man.ifconfig.8; utility manually:</para>
+
+    <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>ifconfig <replaceable>bge0</replaceable> -tso</userinput></screen>
+
+    <para>A patch to fix this issue will be released as an Errata
+      Notice.</para>
+
     <para>[20130606] The &man.fxp.4; network interface driver may not
       work well with the &man.dhclient.8; utility.  More specifically,
       if the <filename>/etc/rc.conf</filename> has the following


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