I had trouble too with an RTL8111 (vendor 0x10ec device 0x8168) but after upgrading to build 129 the issues were gone. So, I recommend to upgrade before spending money on another adapter.
Regards, Joost On Mar 28, 2010, at 12:43 PM, Robin Axelsson wrote: > I've just set up opensolaris 2009.06 svn_111 on an AMD(790FX) machine using a > Realtek RTL8111DL NIC (using the rge driver) and I've noticed that the > ethernet connection gets severed during data transfers. > > I haven't experienced any problems during the occasional access to the > network I did when surfing with firefox, updating packages and so on. But > when I started transferring files from one computer on the network through > SMB/CIFS the connection died right in the middle of the transfer about 15 > minutes after starting it. The transfer was initiated on the other computer > (running WinXP x64 ed). > > When I look at the status bar and run commands such as 'dladm show-ether' it > shows no indications of failure, but internet is dead and I cannot ping to or > from it. 'netstat -ni' shows that there are 3 "Oerrs", the rest looks > "normal". I can't find any messages in the /var/adm/messages that are linked > to these errors (I'll attach it along with the kstat information once I > manage to revive the connection). > > I just I pulled the cable and put it back, the connection came back. > > How can I fix this issue? I enclose in the attachment the outputs from > netstat -ni and kstat (NICFailure.txt) and the /var/adm/messages > (NICFailure2.txt). > -- > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > networking-discuss mailing list > [email protected] _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
