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    Official Realtek Driver Binary 1.95 For 2.4.4 Release

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      Napsterbater
      last edited by Napsterbater

      @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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        coreybrett
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        Has anyone had trouble with RTL810xE chipsets? Would this driver cover those?

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          Napsterbater @coreybrett
          last edited by

          @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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            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
            last edited by

            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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              Napsterbater @stephenw10
              last edited by

              @stephenw10 to be clear that model is a fast ethernet not a gigabit. If that makes a difference.

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                stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                last edited by

                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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                  wkn
                  last edited by

                  Compiled on FreeBSD 11.3-STABLE (last):

                  if_re.zip

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                    whosmatt @coreybrett
                    last edited by whosmatt

                    @coreybrett

                    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   = ethernet
                    

                    I 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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                      pereirara24 Banned
                      last edited by

                      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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                        steeletanner @pereirara24
                        last edited by

                        @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 offload

                        I am running stock now and my box hangs when i do large transfer over the network sometimes

                        Thank you.

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                          Napsterbater @steeletanner
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                          @steeletanner I would say yes.

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                          • stephenw10S
                            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                            last edited by

                            Yes, I would disable all hardware offloading if you're seeing an issue.

                            Do you see anything logged when this happens? Any sort of crash report when you reboot?

                            Steve

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                              tpf
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                              Using this driver for months on 2.4.4 without problems. Now, after upgrade to 2.4.5 I'm getting lots of errors with driver loaded. Without driver loaded, the troughput TO firewall is only around 580mbit but no errors. Traffic FROM firewall is round about 970 mbit. Generating traffic with iperf Server on pfSense. Using the compiled driver version for FreeBSD 11.3 as postet above.

                              I'm using VLAN on LAN. WAN interface is free of errors.

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                              Any ideas? Disabled hardware checksum offloading without effect.

                              10 years pfSense! 2006 - 2016

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                                Griffo @TheNarc
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                                @TheNarc Thank you so much. I was about to replace my Qotom N3150 based firewall as, much like others, on recent releases of pfsense the nics would just stop responding under high load. Fingers crossed this fixes it.

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                                  gregeeh @Griffo
                                  last edited by

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

                                  I was about to replace my Qotom N3150 based firewall

                                  I have one of these Qotom N3150 and I have never had any issues since updating the drivers over 12 months ago. It just keeps 'trucking' along and only gets rebooted for an update.

                                  PfSense running on Qotom mini PC
                                  CPU N3150, 2 GB memory, 32 GB SSD & 2 Realtek Gb Ethernet ports.
                                  UniFi AC-Lite access point

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                                    wkn
                                    last edited by

                                    Driver if_re.ko no longer ,loaded on pfSense 2.4.5-p1, worked fine on versions before.

                                    Error in dmesg on kldload -nv /boot/kernel/if_re.ko
                                    KLD if_re.ko: depends on kernel - not available or version mismatch
                                    linker_load_file: Unsupported file type

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                                      gregeeh @wkn
                                      last edited by

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

                                      Driver if_re.ko no longer ,loaded on pfSense 2.4.5-p1,

                                      Just checked my dmesg and did not find any errors related to if_re.ko in 2.4.5-p1.

                                      PfSense running on Qotom mini PC
                                      CPU N3150, 2 GB memory, 32 GB SSD & 2 Realtek Gb Ethernet ports.
                                      UniFi AC-Lite access point

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                                        wkn @gregeeh
                                        last edited by wkn

                                        @gregeeh

                                        Is the driver loaded for you, shown in kldstat?

                                        For me it is not loaded on boot with no error shown in dmesg either. The error is only after manual try with kldload.

                                        [Solved]
                                        Recompiled driver for me on latest 11.3-RELEASE. Now works again.

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                                          netblues @wkn
                                          last edited by

                                          @wkn Do you mind uploading the compiled ko driver for 2.4.5.p1 ?
                                          Thanks

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                                            wkn @netblues
                                            last edited by

                                            @netblues

                                            Of course, here it is...

                                            if_re.zip

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