Author: hrs
Date: Fri Jun 7 09:06:50 2013
New Revision: 251489
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/251489
Log:
Document a bge(4) issue.
Modified:
stable/8/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/errata/article.xml
Modified: stable/8/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/errata/article.xml
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--- stable/8/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/errata/article.xml Fri Jun 7
09:03:56 2013 (r251488)
+++ stable/8/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/errata/article.xml Fri Jun 7
09:06:50 2013 (r251489)
@@ -206,6 +206,23 @@
<sect1 id="open-issues">
<title>Open Issues</title>
+ <para>[20130607] The &man.bge.4; network interface driver has an
+ issue when TSO (TCP Segmentation Offload) is enabled. It causes
+ intermittent reset and re-initialization.</para>
+
+ <para>A workaround is disabling the TSO feature. One can disable
+ it by adding the following line into the &man.rc.conf.5;
+ file:</para>
+
+
<programlisting>ifconfig_<replaceable>bge0</replaceable>="-tso"</programlisting>
+
+ <para>or by using the &man.ifconfig.8; utility manually:</para>
+
+ <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>ifconfig <replaceable>bge0</replaceable>
-tso</userinput></screen>
+
+ <para>A patch to fix this issue will be released as an Errata
+ Notice.</para>
+
<para>[20130606] The &man.fxp.4; network interface driver may not
work well with the &man.dhclient.8; utility. More specifically,
if the <filename>/etc/rc.conf</filename> has the following
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