First off, I don't actually hate Sun (and I loves me some ZFS), but I have a vehement hatred against this forum's signup setup. That, however, is neither here nor there.
So I have what appears to be a RealTek 8111c card, built into my Gigabyte AMD motherboard. Vendor ID : 10EC Device ID : 8168 So my problem lies in that 10-20 gig transfers over the network stall the card. CIFS, NFS, everything does this, and it's not just due to a single transfer (I already tried cutting off transfers and starting new ones a minute or so later). It seems at the point where it's moved around 10-20 gigs, it decides to kill the network for who knows how long. For a NAS, this is a rather disconcerting bug. The connection "dies" for a random period of time (between 5 and 35 minutes), and I occasionally get this error on the box itself, split into 4 lines: rge0 sent bad address 0.0.0.0 I'm running 2009.6. So my questions are as follows: - Is this a driver bug and do recent dev versions of OpenSolaris fare better? - Are they any other gigabit network cards recommended here? "Intel" isn't really enough; I've found stories of people with Intel cards giving even worse results, so a specific card name/chipset would be best. Thank you for your time. Also, if there's anything I can run, diagnostically, to provide more information on the matter, please feel free to ask ;) I'm a Solaris newbie and really don't know anything about which diagnostic programs I can run. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
