From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Hutchings Subject: Re: r8169 Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:58:06 +0000 Message-ID: <1260536286.4532.529.camel@localhost> References: <20091210205821.GX6965@slinky.marshes.co.uk> <4B220E3D.5030502@lastsummer.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-a7Ry6shSCM99uaoifpE0" Cc: Ian Marsh , netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Franco Fichtner Return-path: Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:54153 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754129AbZLKM6F (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Dec 2009 07:58:05 -0500 In-Reply-To: <4B220E3D.5030502@lastsummer.de> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --=-a7Ry6shSCM99uaoifpE0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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: >=20 > >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. >=20 >=20 > 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. --=20 Ben Hutchings Kids! Bringing about Armageddon can be dangerous. Do not attempt it in your own home. - Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, `Good Omens' --=-a7Ry6shSCM99uaoifpE0 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iQIVAwUASyJB1+e/yOyVhhEJAQKzYw//VRFb3lFWTOkn7URkUpkZcTqw0hMaE5KL sC1X4VyEAUklCmFe5d6O+Jd0k4cJgy22B/rK3nNiq/Q0fNXoaEmCpazVnL+ZMdEa cZxs1w9Fruin6SiIFYXDl280leQK4s8fBD/xCLwtWP0xfYjxNlk1xU2q/dqrJ3Na qtHhv4WCnkI+7kA/YHHvkANYmrYYRHe1rxmPSdiwdupp3MtnxP649RV0wqKGMPWP fKkV/SkRcddY/LGeYuyXhadCHShKNMUngncgOs/K56MyQiXWHbST4AL+K8OHAAwO z29Z6qvm5usCxdtUSRj+i1pUE/6eBiSWATxEcUdCLCw1htFXOc/eiNHqJDAIsFBU aCy+F0/ZjsuIz7OsdmBo8rNzwhH/9jznwsiIdBWmP9vYdvnORLx9rsuo+O1RXjxv fUTNhQf+ESxMXePo0OOZ9fb/309Izi0aaL/SnE5NvrtyQG/G4VTFiaAcT+uNdaE0 2aRFZp7aa3u0EC8VCHyqZkhsu3uPiZUAFr7rptilr+PeieckuCWj6XF5DwN5C3ch u3tN/UgPGkFyKPmFYVOONTDkhnUB4c+JtzjVrWZZE7z8gjxKxU9l5ZOYGix1Nb6E KnB4F2/gVf8lMOykZ6r9uLXm+kW5P+B8H7nqsgc/TE8p/jXbO9o1Yq8sZzuUIQWa kPYCqldn7w8= =vpL9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-a7Ry6shSCM99uaoifpE0--