Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 11:41:32AM -0700, Alexander Sack wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > Paul Haddad wrote:
> > >
> > > All,
> > > As a follow up to myself I installed an Intel PCIe NIC and disabled
> the on
> > > board RTL based one and all my problems went away. Been running with
> 4GB
> > > installed for a couple days now with absolutely no network issues. So
> > > seems
> > > like there's some problem with RTL NICs and >= 4GB of RAM.
> > > --
> > > Paul Haddad ([EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED])
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> > I have the EXACT same issues. I'm sorry for arriving late to this
> thread
> > but I was searching around and my onboard, re0, chip=0x816810ec,
> rev=0x01,
> > gets Bad Packet Length on some ssh connections I have. Basically I
> notice
> > this under some load (like while doing a portupgrade).
> >
> > I doubt its the memory, the notebook is brand spank'n new (I don't
> think its
> > ECC RAM but it could be). Based on this post it seems that there maybe
> a
> > bug in the RTL driver on 64-bit platforms? Anyone else see this? I
> may go
> > try to track this down myself.
>
> re(4) had long standing bus_dma(9) bugs. I think I fixed most of
> bus_dma related bugs in 7-stable. Some users still suffer from
> instability issues but I guess it's different one that came from
> lack of documentation of PCIe based controllers.
> If you are not running 7-stable, try it 7-stable first and let me
> know how it goes.
>
>
Pyun:
Understood. I'm on a stock 7.0-RELEASE box. Let me upgrade to the latest
7.0-STABLE driver and will update this thread if I still see issues (if I
do, I'll try to find some time to debug them).
Thanks again!
-aps
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