Re: PR 55714

[Todd Gruhn <tgruhn2%gmail.com@localhost>]

Here is my Q: If it is a low-price chip. Then isnt it from China?
China must maintain market dominance. SO not testing.

On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 9:10 AM BERTRAND Joël <joel.bertrand%systella.fr@localhost> wrote:
>
> Manuel Bouyer a écrit :
> > On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 09:59:37AM +0200, BERTRAND Joël wrote:
> >> [...]
> >>      I suppose there is somewhere in sys/dev/ic/rtl8169.c a memory
> >> corruption when MTU is greater than 1500 bytes. Thus, I started by
> >> analyzing this source file, but I don't see any simple memory
> >> corruption. I'm willing to take tile to help, but I do not know how
> >> continue.
> >
> > It could also be a hardware bug. These low-price chips maybe don't get
> > the all the testing needed for safe corner-case use ...
>
>         For information, lspci -v returns :
>
> 04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8169 PCI
> Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 10)
>         Subsystem: Netgear GA311
>         Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 15
>         I/O ports at e000
>         Memory at f7b20000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
>         Expansion ROM at f7b00000 [disabled]
>         Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
>
>         Of course, this adapter is installed in a 32 bits slot.
>
>         JB