Re: tcpi/ip dies at random times

On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 08:10:26PM +0000, Aryeh Friedman wrote:
 > My inet connection dies at random times (see example below) the only
 > way to repair is a hard reboot (and hard reboot of cable modem)...
 > this problem only started appearing after switching from i386 to amd64
 > 
 > uname -a:
 > 
 > FreeBSD monsert 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #3: Mon Oct  1
 > 02:06:20 UTC 2007     aryeh_at_monsert:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
 > amd64
 > 
 > Problem output:
 > monsert# cvsup /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile
 > Connected to cvsup10.us.FreeBSD.org
 > Updating collection ports-all/cvs
 >  Edit ports/LEGAL
 >  Edit ports/MOVED
 >  Edit ports/UPDATING
 >  Edit ports/audio/qjackctl/Makefile
 >  Edit ports/audio/qjackctl/distinfo
 >  Edit ports/audio/qjackctl/files/patch-src-qjackctlSetup.cpp
 > TreeList failed: Network write failure: Connection closed
 > Will retry at 15:37:45monsert# ifconfig -a
 > re0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
 >         options=9b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM>
 >         ether 00:19:db:b5:f8:0f
 >         inet6 fe80::219:dbff:feb5:f80f%re0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
 >         inet 67.84.39.90 netmask 0xfffff800 broadcast 255.255.255.255
 >         media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
 >         status: active
 > plip0: flags=108810<POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,NEEDSGIANT> metric 0 mtu 1500
 > lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
 >         inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
 >         inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
 >         inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
 > 
 > relevent sections of dmesg:
 > 
 > re0: <RealTek 8168/8111B PCIe Gigabit Ethernet> port 0xe800-0xe8ff mem
 > 0xfcfff000-0xfcffffff irq 17 at device 0.0 on pci4
 > re0: Using 2 MSI messages
 > miibus0: <MII bus> on re0
 > rgephy0: <RTL8169S/8110S media interface> PHY 1 on miibus0
 > rgephy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseT,
 > 1000baseT-FDX, auto
 > re0: Ethernet address: 00:19:db:b5:f8:0f
 > re0: [FILTER]
 > re0: [FILTER]
 > 
 > No abnormal entries in /var/log/messages

I'm not sure re(4) was broken here but here is a WIP version.
Would you give it spin?
http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/re/re.HEAD.patch

It's possible that you have RTL8211 PHY and rgephy(4) needs patches
to support the PHY. If above patch doesn't help try patch at the
following URL.
http://www.f.csce.kyushu-u.ac.jp/~shigeaki/software/rgephy.20070328.fbsd7.patch

-- 
Regards,
Pyun YongHyeon