Re: Packet-corruption with re(4)

2008-05-18 Thread Peter Ankerstål
On Apr 29, 2008, at 2:08 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: I'd recommend staying away from Realtek NICs. Pick up an Intel Pro/ 1000 GT or PT. Realtek has a well-known history of issues. Just wanted to tell you guys that so far a em(4) seems to have fixed the problem. -- Peter Ankerstål

Re: Packet-corruption with re(4)

2008-05-01 Thread Alexandre Sunny Kovalenko
On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 22:58 +0200, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 05:08:34 -0700 Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd recommend staying away from Realtek NICs. Pick up an Intel Pro/1000 GT or PT. Realtek has a well-known history of issues. I hear that story very

Packet-corruption with re(4)

2008-04-29 Thread Peter Ankerstål
Hi, Im using a built in re(4) card and it seems like its causes data- corruption as soon as it gets some load (or after a few hours online) The machine is running FreeBSD 7.0R: FreeBSD ninja 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Wed Apr 16 22:49:15 CEST 2008 [EMAIL

Re: Packet-corruption with re(4)

2008-04-29 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 01:18:10PM +0200, Peter Ankerstål wrote: Im using a built in re(4) card and it seems like its causes data-corruption as soon as it gets some load (or after a few hours online) The machine is running FreeBSD 7.0R: FreeBSD ninja 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Wed

Re: Packet-corruption with re(4)

2008-04-29 Thread Peter Ankerstål
On Apr 29, 2008, at 2:08 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: tcpdump reporting bad cksum can occur due to TX/RX checksum offloading. Do you not see this message normally, but only when the problem begins? Have you tried turning off TX/RX offloading to see if the erroneous behaviour goes away? Have

Re: Packet-corruption with re(4)

2008-04-29 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 02:30:27PM +0200, Peter Ankerstål wrote: On Apr 29, 2008, at 2:08 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: tcpdump reporting bad cksum can occur due to TX/RX checksum offloading. Do you not see this message normally, but only when the problem begins? Have you tried turning off

Re: Packet-corruption with re(4)

2008-04-29 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:18:10 +0200 Peter Ankerstål [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Im using a built in re(4) card and it seems like its causes data- corruption as soon as it gets some load (or after a few hours online) IIRC, this is a known issue with if_re and 7.0-R. It is fixed in

Re: Packet-corruption with re(4)

2008-04-29 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 05:08:34 -0700 Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd recommend staying away from Realtek NICs. Pick up an Intel Pro/1000 GT or PT. Realtek has a well-known history of issues. I hear that story very often, so often that I almost think it's a fairy tale. :-) Most of

Re: Packet-corruption with re(4)

2008-04-29 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 10:58:55PM +0200, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 05:08:34 -0700 Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd recommend staying away from Realtek NICs. Pick up an Intel Pro/1000 GT or PT. Realtek has a well-known history of issues. I hear that

Re: Packet-corruption with re(4)

2008-04-29 Thread Sean C. Farley
On Tue, 29 Apr 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: I'd recommend staying away from Realtek NICs. Pick up an Intel Pro/1000 GT or PT. Realtek has a well-known history of issues. Just a note about the Intel Pro/1000 GT: it is on-sale[1] at NewEgg with free shipping. I just bought my third one to