Re: PR 55714

[BERTRAND Joël <joel.bertrand%systella.fr@localhost>]

BERTRAND Joël a écrit :
> 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 ...
>>
> 
> 	Maybe. But I'm not sure. If I remember, this adapter ran without any
> other trouble on a Linux system with jumbo frames enabled.

	I have tested last night on a Linux server and this adapter runs as
expected with jumbo frames enabled. Even if this adapter is very cheap
(and Realtek chip buggy), it works without any trouble in this
configuration.

	Regards,

	JKB