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      mervincm
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      Well, I decided to try it out. I added the driver as detailed above, and confirmed it was loaded, and now I beat on it 5 times as hard and I have not been able to get a single more watchdog error. thanks for helping me find and fix a problem I didn't even know I had!

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        tcarlisle
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        @TheNarc said in Official Realtek Driver Binary 1.95 For 2.4.4 Release:

        CI323

        What I experienced, using the driver built into pfsense on Cl323, is that there will be watchdog timeouts frequently; but eventually the LAN interface will quite working completely until someone reboots the box. After installing the realtek driver 1.95 as described in this thread, those issues are no more and the box is stable.

        If you are deploying pfsense on CI323, I'd strongly reccommend this driver and that stress testing the network is part of your checklist.

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          krackpot
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          Has anyone experienced a downgrade in performance to around 100mbps? It used to operate at my connection speed 175mbps, but after I had to shutdown and replace a power bar a few days ago, it hasn't been the same.

          The dashboard reports the link is 1000mbps but that's not the actual speed when downloading a file.

          Thanks for your time.

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            Napsterbater @krackpot
            last edited by

            @krackpot I have two systems running with this driver one on a 200mbps link one on a 300mbps, neither have trouble hitting those speeds.

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            • stephenw10S
              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
              last edited by

              That sounds more like something is actually linking at 100Mb. That NIC should pass far more than that with either driver.

              Steve

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                gordon
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                Have 2.4.4-RELEASE-p3 the latest driver for RTL8111G or must I manualy update the driver to latest version?

                I have problem WAN port stop working, disable the port and enable and it start working again... its happens with low load 10mbit maybe... within 1 hour or so...

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                • kiokomanK
                  kiokoman LAYER 8
                  last edited by kiokoman

                  you need to manually update https://drive.google.com/open?id=1lBg8AIRiRfGBGeXe9kgKtAAma0VjiYfC
                  copy to /boot/kernel , rename to if_re.ko
                  kldload if_re.ko
                  or build it yourself

                  to load it at boot
                  edit /boot/loader.conf.local
                  and paste
                  if_re_load=“YES"

                  personally i've lost patience with realtek and at the end i bought an intel card

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                    gordon @kiokoman
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                    @kiokoman said in Official Realtek Driver Binary 1.95 For 2.4.4 Release:

                    you need to manually update https://drive.google.com/open?id=1lBg8AIRiRfGBGeXe9kgKtAAma0VjiYfC
                    copy to /boot/kernel , rename to if_re.ko
                    kldload if_re.ko
                    or build it yourself

                    to load it at boot
                    edit /boot/loader.conf.local
                    and paste
                    if_re_load=“YES"

                    personally i've lost patience with realtek and at the end i bought an intel card

                    /root: kldstat
                    Id Refs Address Size Name
                    1 5 0xffffffff80200000 2ddcbe8 kernel
                    2 1 0xffffffff82fde000 7d290 if_re.ko
                    3 1 0xffffffff839fa000 10a0 cpuctl.ko

                    Is the drive active now ?

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                    • kiokomanK
                      kiokoman LAYER 8
                      last edited by

                      yes

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                        gordon @kiokoman
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                        @kiokoman said in Official Realtek Driver Binary 1.95 For 2.4.4 Release:

                        yes

                        These should be it ?

                        Now can I go to bad, and see if internett is still working tomorrow morning :)

                        Thank you very much !

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                          gordon @gordon
                          last edited by

                          @gordon

                          The problem is still present...
                          Strange it is only a problem with WAN (re1) and not LAN (re0)...

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                            gordon
                            last edited by gordon

                            [2.4.4-RELEASE][root@firewall.test.net]/root: grep re1 /var/run/dmesg.boot
                            re1: <Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller> port 0xd000-0xd0ff mem 0xa1104000-0xa1104fff,0xa1100000-0xa1103fff at device 0.0 on pci3
                            re1: Using Memory Mapping!
                            re1: Using 1 MSI-X message
                            re1: ASPM disabled
                            re1: version:1.95.00
                            re1: Ethernet address: 00:1e:06:45:02:83
                            re1: Ethernet address: 00:1e:06:45:02:83

                            [2.4.4-RELEASE][root@firewall.test.net]/root: route -n
                            route: usage: route [-46dnqtv] command [[modifiers] args]

                            [2.4.4-RELEASE][root@firewall.test.net]/root: arp -an | grep re1
                            ? (92.221.80.253) at 00:1e:06:45:02:83 on re1 permanent [ethernet]
                            ? (92.221.80.1) at 00:02:00:01:00:01 on re1 expires in 97 seconds [ethernet]

                            [2.4.4-RELEASE][root@firewall.test.net]/root: tcpdump -c 20 -n -i re1
                            tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode
                            listening on re1, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 262144 bytes
                            03:49:11.244621 IP 92.221.80.253.49228 > XX.XX.XX.XX.XXX: 26302+ XXXXXXX (91)
                            03:49:11.244626 IP 92.221.80.253.49228 > XX.XX.XX.XX.XXX: 26302+ XXXXXXX. (91)
                            03:49:11.246135 IP 92.221.80.253.25525 > XX.XX.XX.XX.XXX: 28630+ XXXXXXX. (35)
                            03:49:11.246139 IP 92.221.80.253.25525 > XX.XX.XX.XX.XXX: 28630+ XXXXXXX. (35)
                            03:49:11.262982 IP 92.221.80.253.25525 > XX.XX.XX.XX.XXX: 42079+ XXXXXXX. (57)
                            03:49:11.262985 IP 92.221.80.253.25525 > XX.XX.XX.XX.XXX: 42079+ XXXXXXX. (57)
                            03:49:11.263013 IP 92.221.80.253.25525 > XX.XX.XX.XX.XXX: 23104+ XXXXXXX. (53)
                            03:49:11.263016 IP 92.221.80.253.25525 > XX.XX.XX.XX.XXX: 23104+ XXXXXXX. (53)
                            03:49:11.413788 IP 92.221.80.253.25525 > 109.247.114.4.53: 46408+ XXXXXXX. (41)
                            03:49:11.413793 IP 92.221.80.253.25525 > 92.220.228.70.53: 46408+ XXXXXXX. (41)
                            03:49:11.413823 IP 92.221.80.253.25525 > 109.247.114.4.53: 30408+ XXXXXXX. (41)
                            03:49:11.413826 IP 92.221.80.253.25525 > 92.220.228.70.53: 30408+ XXXXXXX. (41)
                            03:49:11.414619 IP 92.221.80.253.25525 > XX.XX.XX.XX.XXX: 9197+ XXXXXXX. (31)
                            03:49:11.414622 IP 92.221.80.253.25525 > XX.XX.XX.XX.XXX: 9197+ XXXXXXX. (31)
                            03:49:11.414695 IP 92.221.80.253.36009 > XX.XX.XX.XX.XXX: 247+ XXXXXXX. (31)
                            03:49:11.414699 IP 92.221.80.253.36009 > XX.XX.XX.XX.XXX: 247+ XXXXXXX. (31)
                            03:49:11.490012 IP 92.221.80.253.49228 > XX.XX.XX.XX.XXX: 26302+ XXXXXXX. (91)
                            03:49:11.490015 IP 92.221.80.253.49228 > XX.XX.XX.XX.XXX: 26302+ XXXXXXX. (91)
                            03:49:11.491250 IP 92.221.80.253.25525 > XX.XX.XX.XX.XXX: 28630+ XXXXXXX. (35)
                            03:49:11.491253 IP 92.221.80.253.25525 > XX.XX.XX.XX.XXX: 28630+ XXXXXXX. (35)
                            20 packets captured
                            20 packets received by filter
                            0 packets dropped by kernel

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                              gordon @kiokoman
                              last edited by

                              @kiokoman are you sure the driver has been loaded ?
                              Just that I facing the same problem after also....

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                              • stephenw10S
                                stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                last edited by

                                @gordon said in Official Realtek Driver Binary 1.95 For 2.4.4 Release:

                                re1: version:1.95.00

                                It shows it's loaded there. The FreeBSD in kernel driver doesn't show the version as far as I know. I only have 2.5 dev box up right now but:

                                [2.5.0-DEVELOPMENT][root@apu.stevew.lan]/root: grep re1 /var/run/dmesg.boot
re1: <RealTek 8168/8111 B/C/CP/D/DP/E/F/G PCIe Gigabit Ethernet> port 0x2000-0x20ff mem 0xf7c00000-0xf7c00fff,0xf7b00000-0xf7b03fff irq 17 at device 0.0 on pci2
re1: Using 1 MSI-X message
re1: ASPM disabled
re1: Chip rev. 0x2c000000
re1: MAC rev. 0x00200000
miibus1: <MII bus> on re1
re1: Using defaults for TSO: 65518/35/2048
re1: Ethernet address: 00:0d:b9:89:3f:11
re1: netmap queues/slots: TX 1/256, RX 1/256

                                Try commenting out the line in loader.conf.local and rebooting.

                                Steve

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                                • kiokomanK
                                  kiokoman LAYER 8
                                  last edited by kiokoman

                                  @gordon said in Official Realtek Driver Binary 1.95 For 2.4.4 Release:

                                  [2.4.4-RELEASE][root@firewall.test.net]/root: grep re1 /var/run/dmesg.boot
                                  re1: <Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller> port 0xd000-0xd0ff mem 0xa1104000-0xa1104fff,0xa1100000-0xa1103fff at device 0.0 on pci3
                                  re1: Using Memory Mapping!
                                  re1: Using 1 MSI-X message
                                  re1: ASPM disabled
                                  > re1: version:1.95.00
                                  re1: Ethernet address: 00:1e:06:45:02:83
                                  re1: Ethernet address: 00:1e:06:45:02:83

                                  yes it is like stephenw10 say,
                                  version 1.95.00 is the official driver, the one shipped with freebsd does not output the version when it load

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                                    gordon @kiokoman
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                                    @kiokoman said in Official Realtek Driver Binary 1.95 For 2.4.4 Release:

                                    @gordon said in Official Realtek Driver Binary 1.95 For 2.4.4 Release:

                                    [2.4.4-RELEASE][root@firewall.test.net]/root: grep re1 /var/run/dmesg.boot
                                    re1: <Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller> port 0xd000-0xd0ff mem 0xa1104000-0xa1104fff,0xa1100000-0xa1103fff at device 0.0 on pci3
                                    re1: Using Memory Mapping!
                                    re1: Using 1 MSI-X message
                                    re1: ASPM disabled
                                    > re1: version:1.95.00
                                    re1: Ethernet address: 00:1e:06:45:02:83
                                    re1: Ethernet address: 00:1e:06:45:02:83

                                    yes it is like stephenw10 say,
                                    version 1.95.00 is the official driver, the one shipped with freebsd does not output the version when it load

                                    Thank you,

                                    I reinstalled pfsense today and are using WAN on re0 instead of re1 and LAN on re1, so fare so fare, new record in uptime... cross my fingers....

                                    But I cannot understand these shall make any different ?

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                                    • stephenw10S
                                      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                      last edited by

                                      The driver provided by Realtek can commonly help if you're seeing watchdog timeout errors. But it sounds like that's not what you're seeing so it may not make any difference here. You have nothing to lose by trying it though.

                                      Steve

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                                        gordon @stephenw10
                                        last edited by gordon

                                        @stephenw10
                                        Problem is still present, card stop working and report DOWN in status under

                                        Remember both card is identical network card... strange it’s only WAN card who goes down.

                                        Have now tried disabling «Disable hardware checksum offload»

                                        Is it possible to make the card recycle DISABLE and then ENABLE when these happens, way around the problem until I find a fix?

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                                          gordon @gordon
                                          last edited by

                                          «Disable hardware checksum
                                          Was not fixing the problem....

                                          Does anybody know how I can auto disable and enable the card when it goes down?

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                                          • kiokomanK
                                            kiokoman LAYER 8
                                            last edited by

                                            try with
                                            /etc/rc.d/netif restart re0

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