> Does this indicate that my new hardware is probably not going to work with
> fbsd 4.0?
[snip]
> rl0: <RealTek 8139 10/100BaseTX> port 0xde00-0xdeff mem
[snip]
I notice that you use a RealTek card in your router. First of all, there is a
bug in the RealTek driver in 4.0 that crashes the system (more info on that in
PR kern/17582), this is probably what you are seeing. You should either
upgrade the driver or upgrade the whole system to 4.0.
Second, reconsider your choice of network card. I quote Bill Paul's comment in
the rl driver sources:
* The RealTek 8139 PCI NIC redefines the meaning of 'low end.' This is
* probably the worst PCI ethernet controller ever made, with the possible
* exception of the FEAST chip made by SMC. The 8139 supports bus-master
* DMA, but it has a terrible interface that nullifies any performance
* gains that bus-master DMA usually offers.
...
* It's impossible given this rotten design to really achieve decent
* performance at 100Mbps, unless you happen to have a 400Mhz PII or
* some equally overmuscled CPU to drive it.
I would think twice before using such a card in router....
Blaz Zupan, Medinet d.o.o, Linhartova 21, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia
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