From: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
To: Franco Fichtner <franco@lastsummer.de>
Cc: Ian Marsh <mushypea@dominion.net.uk>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: r8169
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:58:06 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1260536286.4532.529.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B220E3D.5030502@lastsummer.de>
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On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 10:17 +0100, Franco Fichtner wrote:
[...]
> At work we're also using ubuntu which comes with the r8169 driver,
> and had to deal with network dropouts while trying to benchmark
> heavy loads. This is what the support of our boxes told us:
>
> >Please use 8168 instead of 8169. Please see the notice about this
> >important point in May..
> >
> >The situation you observed should be a misjudgment by the Linux Kernel.
> >Driver 8168 is recommended by Realtek. Please use this revision.
>
>
> No more problems since then. Hope that helps!
Realtek releases separate r8168 and r8169 drivers for controllers
attached to a PCI Express or PCI bus, but they are largely identical.
The in-tree r8169 driver is based on a combination of the two Realtek
drivers.
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-11 12:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-10 20:58 r8169 Ian Marsh
2009-12-11 9:17 ` r8169 Franco Fichtner
2009-12-11 12:58 ` Ben Hutchings [this message]
2009-12-11 14:58 ` r8169 Ian Marsh
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