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Date:      Thu, 16 Jan 2014 09:52:49 +0000 (UTC)
From:      "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6724@bellsouth.net>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Cc:        Jack F Vogel <jfv@freebsd.org>, Eric Joyner <ricera10@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 10-RC4: Got crash in igb driver
Message-ID:  <502069.75720.bm@smtp116.sbc.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>

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> I work with Jack on FreeBSD network drivers, and we have a patch that we
> think might fix this problem. It re-implements the header pull-up code that
> was in the driver pre-2.4.0, but with IPv6 support. Alexandre, could you
> apply this patch to the igb version in HEAD and try it out on your network?
> We can't replicate your setup here.

> If it solves your problem, then the next step would be to port the patch to
> the ixgbe driver since, as Yonghyeon noted, it looks like that driver will
> encounter the same problem. We could then modify em to add IPv6 offload
> support as well.

> Thanks,
        
- Eric Joyner

Can I get in on network drivers, two in particular where I have the hardware involved?

Drivers in my case are re, which fails on my motherboard, and athn, not currently present in FreeBSD.

I would have NetBSD src tree to compare with, and NetBSD re driver works on my motherboard.
 
Tom




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