On Sun, 23 Mar 2008, Chris Buechler wrote: > There are a lot of crappy Realtek NICs out there, but I'm surprised you're > seeing this on a HeroLogic board. I use a number of different embedded > hardware platforms with Realtek NICs, including a HeroLogic HL-462 they > contributed to the project, and I've yet to see an issue with any of them. I > used the HL-462 as my perimeter firewall for a couple months, with 15 Mb and 3 > Mb WAN connections, and beat it up. Never had a single issue. > > It could potentially be a hardware problem of some sort, or a FreeBSD driver > bug. Either way, nothing we can solve. A post to freebsd-net might get > somewhere in getting it fixed in FreeBSD if it ends up being a driver bug, > though I'd get in touch with HeroLogic first to see if they've run into that > before.
Good news, it appears my assumption was correct. There exists a flaw in the realtek chipset (as quoted earlier in the thread), and it appears that a patch to the driver has been created: http://www.nabble.com/RELENG_7-panic-td16285669.html The herologic boxes we have in a low volume implementation have been rock solid. Hopefully over the next month or so when a version of pfsense based on 7 becomes available, the herologic boxes will be completely reliable in this environment. Andy --- Andy Dills Xecunet, Inc. www.xecu.net 301-682-9972 --- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]