Re: AX88179 USB-to-Ethernet is slow and silently corrupts data

2018-04-10 Thread clay
I have one of these (I think it's the same chipset, I know it's AX88xxx) and I've used it before without issue. If I can find it at home and it's the same chipset I'll give it a whirl and check to confirm that it's not a hardware issue. Problem with these cheap USB-whatever adapters is that the

AX88179 USB-to-Ethernet is slow and silently corrupts data

2018-04-10 Thread Dieter BSD
10.3-RELEASE amd64 with ECC memory VIA VL805 USB 3.0 controller ue0 is Siig USB-to-Ethernet Chipset: AX88179 ugen0.7: at usbus0, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=SUPER (5.0Gbps) pwr=ON (124mA) ue0: flags=8c43 metric 0 mtu 1500 options=8000b inet 10.0.210.66 netmask 0xff00 broadcast

Realtek re(4) driver

2018-04-10 Thread Dieter BSD
Multiple people have found that FreeBSD's re(4) driver for Realtek Ethernet chips has problems. Something like a rcp(1) with another FreeBSD box merely runs slower due to the stalls, but if the other end has buggy network code and/or if the transfer is forced to use UDP (Unreliable Data Protocol)

Re: Duplicate MAC addresses in VNET epair interaces

2018-04-10 Thread Luca Pizzamiglio
Hi. I have the same problem. The arc4random() call was committed and reverted ( https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/sys/net/if_epair.c?view=log) I have a patch, that I'm currently using, that solves the issue locally (available here https://pastebin.com/LpPEVJL7 ) To be more generic, I'd like t

Re: Support for Dual NIC

2018-04-10 Thread Vincenzo Maffione
Hi, In general, if a driver (e.g. ixgbe) supports DEV_NETMAP, then all the NIC models sharing the same driver will have native netmap support. Netmap simply does not know about the specific models. If you are really seeing an issue, it may be related to the recent iflib refactoring, which now co