hello, after upgrading to 5.3 (cvsup) i have a lot of network problems with realtec 8139 cards. these cards worked fine with 4.x and 5.2.1. the network is slowing down heavily without seeing any problems reports on console or syslog (*.* logged). are there any known problems with these card and 5.3? this happens on different servers updated since the last 2 weeks. many thanks, karl
I had a similar problem on a few boxes, you should check the mailing list archives for a recent discussion on how crappy the realtec nic's are. -- ?sak Ben, http://www.isak.is ---------- Original Message ----------- From: "Karl M. Joch" <k.joch@ctseuro.com> To: <stable@freebsd.org> Sent: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 19:10:57 +0100 Subject: Slow Network with rl0 and 5.3> hello, > > after upgrading to 5.3 (cvsup) i have a lot of network problems with > realtec 8139 cards. these cards worked fine with 4.x and 5.2.1. the > network is slowing down heavily without seeing any problems reports on > console or syslog (*.* logged). are there any known problems with these > card and 5.3? this happens on different servers updated since the last 2 > weeks. > > many thanks, > > karl > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"------- End of Original Message -------
we will test the patch today. thanks for your work. btw, we had an very interesting error with rl cards which we first thought this was related to the bug but then have to learn that there are far more possibilities. on an MSI motherboard we had 3 rl cards installed. it was possible to dump about 110 GB over the wire without any error. but after that when users (samba, http proxy ...) worked) the machine slowed down heavily, writing packet oversized errors on the console.we changed the cards against 3Com nics and 2 of them simply was dead. investigation further showed, that the pci slots on this motherboard are shared and also with acpi and different interrupts the rl?s brought the error and the 3Coms was dead. after changing the motherboard to another brand everything (with both cards) worked fine. karl> -----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht----- > Von: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org] Im Auftrag von Max Laier > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 09. Februar 2005 00:16 > An: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org > Cc: Karl M. Joch; ?sak Ben.; Dorian B?ttner > Betreff: Re: AW: Slow Network with rl0 and 5.3 > > On Thursday 03 February 2005 18:46, I wrote: > > > > EVERYBODY: Could you please check if you have a rl(4) > driven NIC and > > > > check if you experienced a speed degradation as well. > Please let me > > > > know either way with information about the chipset on your NIC. > > > > Thanks! > > > > PR kern/61448 might apply to you. Can you try the diff > offered there and > > follow-up with your findings? > > Finally found some time to look at the issue. The patch > there was good, but > needed some tweaking. Everybody (having problems) with rl > should check this > patch - please. I plan to commit it soon, so please scream > if it breaks > things for you. > > Karl, can you verify that this patch solves the issue as well > (i.e. can you > backout the one I send you earlier?) - Thanks! > > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/61448 > > or: http://people.freebsd.org/~mlaier/if_rl.c.PR.patch directly. > > -- > /"\ Best regards, | mlaier@freebsd.org > \ / Max Laier | ICQ #67774661 > X http://pf4freebsd.love2party.net/ | mlaier@EFnet > / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML Mail and News >
we have testet your patch on 3 systems. works without any problems. cards are fast. many thanks for your work. karl> -----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht----- > Von: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org] Im Auftrag von Max Laier > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 09. Februar 2005 00:16 > An: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org > Cc: Karl M. Joch; ?sak Ben.; Dorian B?ttner > Betreff: Re: AW: Slow Network with rl0 and 5.3 > > On Thursday 03 February 2005 18:46, I wrote: > > > > EVERYBODY: Could you please check if you have a rl(4) > driven NIC and > > > > check if you experienced a speed degradation as well. > Please let me > > > > know either way with information about the chipset on your NIC. > > > > Thanks! > > > > PR kern/61448 might apply to you. Can you try the diff > offered there and > > follow-up with your findings? > > Finally found some time to look at the issue. The patch > there was good, but > needed some tweaking. Everybody (having problems) with rl > should check this > patch - please. I plan to commit it soon, so please scream > if it breaks > things for you. > > Karl, can you verify that this patch solves the issue as well > (i.e. can you > backout the one I send you earlier?) - Thanks! > > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/61448 > > or: http://people.freebsd.org/~mlaier/if_rl.c.PR.patch directly. > > -- > /"\ Best regards, | mlaier@freebsd.org > \ / Max Laier | ICQ #67774661 > X http://pf4freebsd.love2party.net/ | mlaier@EFnet > / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML Mail and News >