[OpenIndiana-discuss] intermittent network? (rge device)

[Russ Price]

On 06/17/2012 03:15 PM, ramble1035 @dslextreme.com wrote:
> I've got a small PC with two rge networking interfaces (one on the
> motherboard, one on a separate pcie card).  I'm seeing some
> intermittently flakey behavior, where the network just stops talking.
> Looking at it seems to indicate things are alive and well, and my
> internal LAN switch shows a hardware connection but no activity.
>
> This last episode, I experienced:
> a completely unresponsive local net connection on rge0
> ifconfig showed correct values (possibly left over from when it *was* working)
> ping out got nothing
> ping in got request timeouts and no route to host errors
> the other network interface worked fine
> netstat -r  produced (eventually) a routing table with a correct
> default route, but it took a while.
>

Until recently, my experience with rge was good - at least on
Asus M4A785-M and M5A97 motherboards, where they've never skipped a beat.
However, I ran into the exact same behavior you're seeing on an
M5A88-V EVO that I recently built up. My solution was to disable it
and use an Intel PCIe card.