Official Realtek Driver Binary 1.95 For 2.4.4 Release
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I just ran into a situation similar to @fromage9747, but with a cheapo mini-pc that has two realtec nics of the type discussed above. Worked fine for months, but today watchdog timer started timing out every few minutes. After updating the driver, it hasn't happened yet.
I followed this post:
https://forum.netgate.com/post/799000
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@fromage9747
Thanks for the followup. Nice to know this is likely dealt with.. A few hours now and problem free. -
Just for confirmations is anybody upgraded to 2.4.5 with FreeBSD 11.3?
Any issues or should it be good to go?
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@Napsterbater Did you take the leap and try 2.4.5 with this driver?
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Full disclosure: I have not yet tested this and do not know if it is necessary, but I did recompile the v1.95 Realtek driver under FreeBSD 11.3. I'm planning to test it on my pfSense machines within the next day or two and will report back.
if_re_ko_v195_FREEBSD-11.3_64bit.zip -
Installed the driver I attached to my previous post w. 2.4.5 and all is well so far . . . will report back if anything goes sideways.
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@TheNarc said in Official Realtek Driver Binary 1.95 For 2.4.4 Release:
Full disclosure: I have not yet tested this and do not know if it is necessary, but I did recompile the v1.95 Realtek driver under FreeBSD 11.3. I'm planning to test it on my pfSense machines within the next day or two and will report back.
if_re_ko_v195_FREEBSD-11.3_64bit.zipInstall this updated driver on one box and then updated to 2.4.5, its booted and running. So far so good.
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@Derelict said in Official Realtek Driver Binary 1.95 For 2.4.4 Release:
/boot/loader.conf.local
Also note after upgrade run "kldstat" to confirm if_re.ko loaded.
If not make sure you have
if_re_load="YES"
in /boot/loader.conf.local NOT /boot/loader.conf as /boot/loader.conf is overwritten on upgrade.
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Has anyone had trouble with RTL810xE chipsets? Would this driver cover those?
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@coreybrett from what I can tell. This driver should work with it.
But worst case be ready to edit the loader.conf.local from the console and remove the reference to it just in case..
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Yes, there's only one driver, re(4), for all the Realtek Gigabit NICs. It should work for that.
Are you actually seeing issues though? I would only use the alternative driver if you are.
Steve
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@stephenw10 to be clear that model is a fast ethernet not a gigabit. If that makes a difference.
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Ah, been a while since I saw one of those. It's listed as supported by re(4) though so it's probably good.
Though I would recommend not using it at all if there is any other option. The Realtek 100M NICs were terrible.
I hope it's better than the rtl8139: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/blob/master/sys/dev/rl/if_rl.c#L48
Steve
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Compiled on FreeBSD 11.3-STABLE (last):
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I have a bunch of HP motherboards that have them:
re0@pci0:3:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x2b05103c chip=0x813610ec rev=0x07 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.' device = 'RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller' class = network subclass = ethernetI don't currently use this interface with my pfSense box but I did for a while and it was fine with the driver that ships with pfSense. By "fine" I mean it wasn't obviously broken in any way.
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I just updated it and it really increases the software performance very well. Thank you very much for this contribution, it is very appreciated.
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@pereirara24 do you still have to check the box ofr the three options below in system advanced networking:
Disable hardware chekcsum offload
Disable hardware tcp segmentation offload
Disable hardware large received offloadI am running stock now and my box hangs when i do large transfer over the network sometimes
Thank you.
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@steeletanner I would say yes.
