On 8 Feb 2013, at 21:48, "Ronald F. Guilmette" <r...@tristatelogic.com> wrote:
>
> In message <f03c262c-e798-4062-8b17-59f045adb...@jnielsen.net>,
> John Nielsen <j...@jnielsen.net> wrote:
>
>> On Feb 7, 2013, at 4:13 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette <r...@tristatelogic.com> =
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I just aquired a brand new chepie gigabit PCI ethernet card off eBay.
>>> The main chip on it appears to be an RTL8110S-32.
>>> ...
>
>> I would suspect the switch ("router"). FYI:
>> http://forum.qnap.com/viewtopic.php?f=3D11&t=3D47421#p213242
>>
>> I have an re interface on my FreeBSD router and it connects at 1000baseT =
>> no problem.
>
> Could you please send or post the relevant ifconfig printout for that,
> and also the applicable/relevant dmesg lines?
>
> This problem is very perplexing, but I don't think that the problem
> is with my Linksys E2000.
>
> I did some more experiments. Fortunately, I had a CAT6 crossover cable
> lying around. So I used that and connected my machine with the RTL8110S-32
> in it directly to two other machines with gigabit interfaces. One was
> my other server. The other was a laptop I have here. The results were
> very strange.
>
> In the case of connecting to the laptop, all seemed to work correctly,
> however ifconfig showed that my re0 device in this case believed itself
> to be "master". (I suspect that this may make a difference, and that
> the current FreeBSD re driver may perhaps behave better when it is
> acting as master.)
>
?????
Come again ?
Master what ?
You never mentioned using lagg.
> In the case of connecting (via CAT6 crossover) direct to my other server,
> things got even more strange. In this case, after making the connection,
> autonegotiation apparently worked correctly, and I could see "1000baseT"
> in the output from "ifconfig re0", *however* a moment or two later,
> suddenly the connection was entirely dropped, and now the ifconfig
> output said "no carrier". I reproduced this sequence multiple times.
> It is readily reproducable. (The other server is running FreeBSD 8.3-
> RELEASE with an on-motherboard Nvidia gigabit ethernet interface, BTW.)
>
> I am inclined to wonder if perhaps the re driver has some rough edges
> still.
>
>
> Regards,
> rfg
>
>
> P.S. Since this card is really not working out for me, has anybody got
> a suggestion and/or link they could send me for an _inexpensive_ gigabit
> PCI nic that works reliably with FreeBSD? (I am hoping for something under
> $12
Come on you've got to be kidding here...
Get an intel or a Broadcom, cough up a bit more than duh... $12, and you'll be
happy with that card.
FYI I'm getting 1000baseT from built-in NICs.
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