Hi Adrian
2013/12/4 Adrian Zaugg <[email protected]>
>
> I would like to know whether you experience similar problems with your
> Realtek 8111 variant (or maybe another Realtek chip using the re
> driver). To test, send a lot of data through your Realtek-based device
> or just to your device, e.g. like this:
>
> - login to your_device and start:
> nc -l 10000 > /dev/null
>
> - send data from another machine:
> dd if=/dev/zero | nc your_device 10000
>
I have a Intel D510MO board (Atom D510) that I recently tossed 10.0-BETA3,
now BETA4 on
it. It seems this board has a the NIC you and others encounter issues with:
re0@pci0:1:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0xd6158086 chip=0x816810ec rev=0x03
hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.'
device = 'RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller'
class = network
subclass = ethernet
I have no jumbo frames or whatsoever enabled.
The other side is a 10.0-BETA4 Virtualbox with an emulated Intel NIC (em).
So far (> 5' of continuous run), no hickups, but I doubt that in my case
the CPU on the Realktek
side is likely the limiting factor as 'top' says 50% continuous CPU load
(it has 2 core) and
"systat -ifstat" tells me that I'm receiving at rouhgly 64 MB/s - at that
rate the 8111 isn't really
hitting its limits.
After a minute or so, the ethernet link gets lost.
Currently this doesn't seem to happen here, but I only have 1 VM hitting
the box.
> Some reporters say until a manual intervention occurs, in many other cases
> like mine for a
> couple of seconds.
>
> [...] is it common sense to file a bug for pfsense and let the pfsense
> devs report upstream?).
>
Don't take this as reference, I'm still quite new to FreeBSD, but I also
run pfSense boxes
(not with Realtek NICs though). Asking for, or doing comparison against
native FreeBSD has
generally been helpful at least for me at least (i.e. for picking patches
from -STABLE)
Hitting pfSense tracker is certainly not a bad idea either (considering
people reported problems on FreeNAS too).
-- Mathieu
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