Hi there. On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 8:49 PM, That Guy <thatguy778 at mailinator.com> wrote: > 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?
You've apparently fell victim to that bug : http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6807184. I've been monitoring it myself, as I've had the same issue since I started using OpenSolaris back in August. It's been in the "Accepted" state for a while now. I've tried to update to snv_118 when it was made available, but then I fell victim to http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6844241 for which the cause is at least known. Should be fixed in the next update or so, hopefully. > - 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. I've been mulling about getting an Intel add-on card myself, as the e1000g driver seems a lot more stable, and they're kinda cheap at 30~40? a piece. On the other hand, you could try the gani driver, available from http://homepage2.nifty.com/mrym3/taiyodo/eng/. I've heard it could solve the issue, especially for the listed chips, but the 8111C still seems to cause problems even with that driver (sorry, can't find the related blog post right now). I might try installing the gani driver if the next update boots and doesn't fix the issue, but as a newbie you should know that it's not a click-and-forget task if you want to try it yourself. I believe I've seen that issue being raised in driver-discuss, as well as network-discuss, but the thing seems to move very slowly, at least from an end-user perspective. Hope that helped, Laurent.
