From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG  Sun Feb 26 23:20:17 2006
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52C8716A422
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Sun, 26 Feb 2006 23:20:17 +0000 (GMT)
	(envelope-from chrcoluk@gmail.com)
Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.193])
	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D50D643D5A
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Sun, 26 Feb 2006 23:20:14 +0000 (GMT)
	(envelope-from chrcoluk@gmail.com)
Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i31so712912wra
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Sun, 26 Feb 2006 15:20:14 -0800 (PST)
DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com;
	h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references;
	b=lTu2ijBWRIE/BzXNiLOIGME5dCaSj3HUBx1xwswCu0zZyAitwNXifnSY/yjLiE0r7yv0ic7EUA+/03blSI0e680efq0tmGbtGV03vmqwebTY+gUAZ71pR203mTZ55dENt24g8C7Z68y8wstAdwsSNKvy3Uyhb66rLYlhVlpP8GE=
Received: by 10.54.82.10 with SMTP id f10mr3666497wrb;
	Sun, 26 Feb 2006 15:20:14 -0800 (PST)
Received: by 10.54.113.12 with HTTP; Sun, 26 Feb 2006 15:20:13 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <3aaaa3a0602261520y7a3e16dy@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 23:20:13 +0000
From: Chris <chrcoluk@gmail.com>
To: "Chuck Swiger" <cswiger@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <4401CE90.2080703@mac.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
References: <200602261627.27483.freebsda@fuckaround.org>
	<4401CE90.2080703@mac.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Content-Disposition: inline
X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Pol Hallen <freebsda@fuckaround.org>
Subject: Re: rl0 discard oversize
X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5
Precedence: list
List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 23:20:17 -0000

On 26/02/06, Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> wrote:

> Pol Hallen wrote:
> > Hi all :-)
> >
> > I have a fbsd 5.4
> > today while copy a lot files (several Gb) the network saturation...and
> don't
> > responding of ping :-(
> >
> > in dmesg i see:
> >
> > rl0 discard oversize frame (ether type 4a82 flags 3 len 38118 > 1514
> [ ... ]
> > where is the problem?
>
> With the rl0 hardware, probably.  Realtek NICs aren't very good, and I've
> seen
> similar reports from other people which were resolved by getting a dc0 or
> fxp0
> NIC instead.
>
> > this is my main server.. and indispensable 4 my work!
> >
> > sorry 4 my bad english...and thanks!
>
> Your english is OK...
>
> --
> -Chuck
> _______________________________________________


I wonder if anyone has the time to rewrite the realtek driver because
whenever anyone posts about rl0 the advice is always ditch the card, I agre=
e
that realtek's are the reliant robin class of lan cards but the problems
people see do not happen on other operating systems with the same hardware,
eg. I have never seen that mtu problem on debian or windows but I have had
it myself on freebsd, I also get poor realtek performance but when I tried
linux with the same hardware it was normal.  Datacentre's far too often wil=
l
supply a realtek card with the machine so its not always possible or
affordable to simply ditch for a new brand.  If someone does have the time
to look at the driver it would be great and I would be available for testin=
g
as I use realtek cards at home for my lan.

Chris