From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 1 23:18:10 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5672E106566C for ; Thu, 1 May 2008 23:18:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gaijin.k@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.238]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 083DB8FC0C for ; Thu, 1 May 2008 23:18:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gaijin.k@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i29so1123386wxd.7 for ; Thu, 01 May 2008 16:18:09 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:subject:from:to:cc:in-reply-to:references:content-type:date:message-id:mime-version:x-mailer:content-transfer-encoding; bh=42tNiZjeMxr+AgT8Y2FOsht81HOATQjv56pf6RhWTCg=; b=dc5NRoXmtfJGOo/5Qc2Ix2msOXXpDW7nwPaK4lFfPkB+uwVEkkzYyw/16KhSoKKIVVY4AH3tEXoYwHPdUCQ94GYHNn3703erA1aPQ7tqLHsy8A5JBJVRrQON76iuqhWNXx9pzyIwFeyTV8FMBZZTahvEawdy/yEF9mKfz6TMwTU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=subject:from:to:cc:in-reply-to:references:content-type:date:message-id:mime-version:x-mailer:content-transfer-encoding; b=Whn5KV25d3VddBnIIxJ7aUsCgvB9Yuq6sjP/b01lmqqFpS3Ea5JGXsFDOM+JQeFPAjj7HlYXd6oyhTzGn4lK2IC7PXdOgxA1MUtQ/P6gBzN/epEQneOKI5qsdpUiw5BzKitdfHhhdnREmEugaItDDmOSHG/qvfwRmvBax0YsMcE= Received: by 10.101.1.12 with SMTP id d12mr3911032ani.31.1209683888996; Thu, 01 May 2008 16:18:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?10.0.3.231? ( [70.111.21.20]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 29sm6330010wrl.9.2008.05.01.16.18.07 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 01 May 2008 16:18:08 -0700 (PDT) From: "Alexandre \"Sunny\" Kovalenko" To: Torfinn Ingolfsen In-Reply-To: <20080429225855.c0bd48fe.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> References: <20080429120834.GB44737@eos.sc1.parodius.com> <20080429225855.c0bd48fe.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Date: Thu, 01 May 2008 19:17:17 -0400 Message-Id: <1209683837.3651.14.camel@RabbitsDen> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Packet-corruption with re(4) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 May 2008 23:18:10 -0000 On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 22:58 +0200, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 05:08:34 -0700 > 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. > > I hear that story very often, so often that I almost think it's a fairy > tale. :-) > Most of the times the "RealTek NIC" story is told, it isn't backed up > with any references to evidence. Draw your own conclusions. Well, my latest encounter with "Netgear GA311 Rev. A1 (RTL8169S-32) Gigabit Ethernet" falls neatly into the "fairy tale" category -- it has jittery bit in the chip ID register and will advertise itself as 8129 or 8169 depending on the phase of the moon. While it is not fair to judge the whole product line based on the single specimen, it took me some time to figure it out, and, on top of that, I have wasted time of some people, valuable to the FreeBSD project, who were kind enough to review submitted PR and close it. I am not planning on buying more of these to get representative statistics, though ;) The card in question was purchased as the replacement for the 'fxp', which was sitting in that system for a long while, so I think I am in my right to blame the card and not the system. -- Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko (Олександр Коваленко)