From 1d59a3d0d55eebfd8fd31541573d83f380729322 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: hrs Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2013 09:06:50 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Document a bge(4) issue. git-svn-id: svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/stable/8@251489 ccf9f872-aa2e-dd11-9fc8-001c23d0bc1f --- release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/errata/article.xml | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/errata/article.xml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/errata/article.xml index 5c5b08400..763815f71 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/errata/article.xml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/errata/article.xml @@ -206,6 +206,23 @@ Open Issues + [20130607] The &man.bge.4; network interface driver has an + issue when TSO (TCP Segmentation Offload) is enabled. It causes + intermittent reset and re-initialization. + + A workaround is disabling the TSO feature. One can disable + it by adding the following line into the &man.rc.conf.5; + file: + + ifconfig_bge0="-tso" + + or by using the &man.ifconfig.8; utility manually: + + &prompt.root; ifconfig bge0 -tso + + A patch to fix this issue will be released as an Errata + Notice. + [20130606] The &man.fxp.4; network interface driver may not work well with the &man.dhclient.8; utility. More specifically, if the /etc/rc.conf has the following -- 2.45.0