Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2011 15:27:28 GMT From: Adam VandeMore <amvandemore@gmail.com> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: docs/160399: Man page for re(4) missing jumbo frames info Message-ID: <201109021527.p82FRSbw007826@red.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <201109021530.p82FUFFa009024@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 160399
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: Man page for re(4) missing jumbo frames info
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: update
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Fri Sep 02 15:30:14 UTC 2011
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Adam VandeMore
>Release: FreeBSD STABLE 8
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD galacticdominator.com 8.2-STABLE FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE #0: Fri Jul 8 06:22:29 UTC 2011 root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
>Description:
share/man/man4/re.4 doesn't accurately reflect all the realtek nics which work with jumbo frames.
For example, my nic is:
re0@pci0:3:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x75811462 chip=0x816810ec rev=0x03 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Realtek Semiconductor'
device = 'Gigabit Ethernet NIC(NDIS 6.0) (RTL8168/8111/8111c)'
class = network
subclass = ethernet
Which works perfectly well with these settings:
re0: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 6000
options=3898<VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,WOL_UCAST,WOL_MCAST,WOL_MAGIC>
ether 00:24:21:e3:e7:50
inet 192.168.25.10 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.25.255
media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>)
status: active
This wasn't always the case since when I first got this system jumbo frames and FreeBSD didn't work.
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2010-June/025506.html
The missing functionality appears to have been added since then.
>How-To-Repeat:
View the re(4) man page vs what the re driver is capable of.
>Fix:
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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