From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 10 13:39:19 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C795416A4CE for ; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 13:39:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: from gizmo06bw.bigpond.com (gizmo06bw.bigpond.com [144.140.70.41]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 11A6E43D1D for ; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 13:39:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from diskiller@diskiller.net) Received: (qmail 16855 invoked from network); 10 Feb 2005 13:39:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO bwmam11.bigpond.com) (144.135.24.100) by gizmo06bw.bigpond.com with SMTP; 10 Feb 2005 13:39:12 -0000 Received: from cpe-144-136-223-204.sa.bigpond.net.au ([144.136.223.204]) by bwmam11.bigpond.com(MAM REL_3_4_2a 174/52466065) with SMTP id 52466065; Thu, 10 Feb 2005 23:39:12 +1000 User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/11.1.0.040913 Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 00:09:10 +1030 From: Martin Minkus To: , Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <63088.24.71.128.63.1108041953.squirrel@24.71.128.63> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: 5.3-Stable network issue X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 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, 10 Feb 2005 13:39:19 -0000 On 10/2/2005 23:55, "Freddie Cash" wrote: >> I seem to have been having a rather strange networking issue in >> FreeBSD 5.3-Stable (it started happening immediately after 5.2.1 and >> has persisted since.. I keep =B3hoping=B2 that next time I cvsup it will >> be fixed, but no). >=20 >> I downgraded back to 5.2.1-p13 and it is perfectly fine once again. >=20 >> *** Some background information: >=20 >> My FreeBSD box is my home NAT router, server, firewall, etc. It does >> DHCP, MX for some of my domains, secondary DNS (I got primary >> elsewhere), apache for some webhosting, blah blah blah. Nothing >> really special. It is a Dual PIII-500, 512mb ram, and a couple ATA >> hdd=B9s. Had 3 realtek network interfaces, but down to 2 now. >=20 > Any chance of using non-RealTek cards? They are notorious for > performing poorly at the best of times. >=20 > My laptop has one of these internally, and every now and then it'll > drop the connection. Usually with an error about an oversize frame > being discarded. An "ifconfig down" "ifconfig up" will fix the issue. >=20 > Enabling polling support (either via the kernel config option > DEVICE_POLLING or the sysctl) helps some. >=20 > The best solution, though, is to get better NICs. >=20 > For run, read the man page for rl(4) and the comments in the rl > source. Quite enlightening about the "issues" the RealTek chipsets > have. :) Yeah, I've thought about it. But I got no non realtek cards on me, so I'd have to buy them. And there's always a chance this has nothing to do with network cards or the driver (after all, it has worked flawlessly for me since the FreeBSD 3.x days). I am wondering if it is related to my motherboard, or something else? I hav= e a Epox dual cpu board... K something, I'd have to dig it up. Perhaps there is some issue with that, causing the kernel to do funny things? What will enabling polling support do? Martin.