Gentoo Forums
Gentoo Forums
Gentoo Forums
Quick Search: in
realtek network issues
View unanswered posts
View posts from last 24 hours

 
Reply to topic    Gentoo Forums Forum Index Networking & Security
View previous topic :: View next topic  
Author Message
Cr0t
l33t
l33t


Joined: 27 Apr 2002
Posts: 944
Location: USA

PostPosted: Fri Apr 10, 2015 1:33 am    Post subject: realtek network issues Reply with quote

I have two systems, which have realtek nics.

04:01.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8110SC/8169SC Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 06)

In both cases, I am having packet lose, ssh randomly hangs and bad performance. The read AND/OR write performance tops out aggregated at 70-80MB/s. I am 99% sure that I know what the issue is, however, I am unable to fix it. If you google the NIC, you will find all different kind of bugs. Every time, it comes back to the same issue: AUTONEG needs to be turned off.

For some reason, I am unable to turn autoneg off. As soon as I turn it off via ethtool, it jumps right away back to "Symmetric Receive-only". This happens regardless, if I use the kernel driver or the realtek driver.

Any ideas?
_________________
cya
    ©®0t
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
DONAHUE
Watchman
Watchman


Joined: 09 Dec 2006
Posts: 7651
Location: Goose Creek SC

PostPosted: Fri Apr 10, 2015 1:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-943716-start-0-postdays-0-postorder-asc-highlight-r8169%2Bautoneg.html
_________________
Defund the FCC.


Last edited by DONAHUE on Fri Apr 10, 2015 10:12 pm; edited 2 times in total
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Cr0t
l33t
l33t


Joined: 27 Apr 2002
Posts: 944
Location: USA

PostPosted: Fri Apr 10, 2015 1:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

DONAHUE wrote:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7193450.html
That is exactly what I have been doing, but it doesn't work.

Some more things....
Code:
# cat /etc/modules-load.d/r8168.conf
r8168
# cat /etc/modprobe.d/r8168.conf
options r8168 autoneg=0
This is what it looks like
Code:
ethtool enp3s0
Settings for enp3s0:
        Supported ports: [ TP ]
        Supported link modes:   10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                                100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
                                1000baseT/Full
        Supported pause frame use: No
        Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
        Advertised link modes:  10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                                100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
                                1000baseT/Full
        Advertised pause frame use: Symmetric Receive-only
        Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
        Speed: 1000Mb/s
        Duplex: Full
        Port: Twisted Pair
        PHYAD: 0
        Transceiver: internal
        Auto-negotiation: on
        MDI-X: Unknown
        Supports Wake-on: pumbg
        Wake-on: g
        Current message level: 0x00000033 (51)
                               drv probe ifdown ifup
        Link detected: yes

_________________
cya
    ©®0t
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Cr0t
l33t
l33t


Joined: 27 Apr 2002
Posts: 944
Location: USA

PostPosted: Fri Apr 10, 2015 2:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

ethtool only works if I switch to 100mbps
Code:
# ethtool -s enp3s0 speed 100 duplex full autoneg off
#ethtool enp3s0
Settings for enp3s0:
        Supported ports: [ TP ]
        Supported link modes:   10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                                100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
                                1000baseT/Full
        Supported pause frame use: No
        Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
        Advertised link modes:  10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                                100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
        Advertised pause frame use: No
        Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
        Speed: 100Mb/s
        Duplex: Full
        Port: Twisted Pair
        PHYAD: 0
        Transceiver: internal
        Auto-negotiation: off
        MDI-X: Unknown
        Supports Wake-on: pumbg
        Wake-on: g
        Current message level: 0x00000033 (51)
                               drv probe ifdown ifup
        Link detected: yes

_________________
cya
    ©®0t
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
DONAHUE
Watchman
Watchman


Joined: 09 Dec 2006
Posts: 7651
Location: Goose Creek SC

PostPosted: Fri Apr 10, 2015 2:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Have you tried the current version of r8169?

I have an RTL8111/8168/8411 Rev 09 that caused me to use r8168 for a time (r8169 was supposed to work but didn't) until r8168 failed. Ignored that NIC for a time, When I eventually retried r8169, the current version was working well.
_________________
Defund the FCC.


Last edited by DONAHUE on Fri Apr 10, 2015 10:31 pm; edited 1 time in total
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
DONAHUE
Watchman
Watchman


Joined: 09 Dec 2006
Posts: 7651
Location: Goose Creek SC

PostPosted: Fri Apr 10, 2015 2:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

r8169 results here, I have not set autoneg off. I have not noted a problem but mostly use wireless NIC.
oddman ~ # ethtool eth0
Settings for eth0:
Supported ports: [ TP MII ]
Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full
Supported pause frame use: No
Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full
Advertised pause frame use: Symmetric Receive-only
Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
Link partner advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
1000baseT/Full
Link partner advertised pause frame use: Symmetric
Link partner advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
Speed: 1000Mb/s
Duplex: Full
Port: MII
PHYAD: 0
Transceiver: internal
Auto-negotiation: on
Supports Wake-on: pumbg
Wake-on: g
Current message level: 0x00000033 (51)
drv probe ifdown ifup
Link detected: yes
_________________
Defund the FCC.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Cr0t
l33t
l33t


Joined: 27 Apr 2002
Posts: 944
Location: USA

PostPosted: Fri Apr 10, 2015 3:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Supported pause frame use: No
Advertised pause frame use: Symmetric Receive-only


You have the same issue. Do some networking testing and you will see, that the performance on multistream is just bad. While you do your testing take a look at ifconfig. The dropped packets will go up.
_________________
cya
    ©®0t
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
DONAHUE
Watchman
Watchman


Joined: 09 Dec 2006
Posts: 7651
Location: Goose Creek SC

PostPosted: Fri Apr 10, 2015 3:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Am currently 40 packages into a 201 packages update caused by abi_x86_32 change

oddman ~ # ifconfig eth0
eth0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 192.168.1.116 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255
ether 60:a4:4c:ce:5d:f9 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 396634 bytes 597189080 (569.5 MiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 172855 bytes 12382234 (11.8 MiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0

looks good to me so far, What else might I look at?
_________________
Defund the FCC.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Cr0t
l33t
l33t


Joined: 27 Apr 2002
Posts: 944
Location: USA

PostPosted: Fri Apr 10, 2015 4:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

DONAHUE wrote:
Am currently 40 packages into a 201 packages update caused by abi_x86_32 change

oddman ~ # ifconfig eth0
eth0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 192.168.1.116 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255
ether 60:a4:4c:ce:5d:f9 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 396634 bytes 597189080 (569.5 MiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 172855 bytes 12382234 (11.8 MiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0

looks good to me so far, What else might I look at?
Supported pause frame use: No
Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
Advertised pause frame use: Symmetric Receive-only
Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
Link partner advertised pause frame use: Symmetric
Link partner advertised auto-negotiation: Yes[/code]This very peculiar. The device does not support pause frames, but uses Symmetric. Your switch offered this. On my end, my link partner does NOT offer pause frames, but still uses it. What are you connected to? Layer2/3 switch?
_________________
cya
    ©®0t
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
DONAHUE
Watchman
Watchman


Joined: 09 Dec 2006
Posts: 7651
Location: Goose Creek SC

PostPosted: Fri Apr 10, 2015 4:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

http://www.edimax.com/edimax/merchandise/merchandise_detail/data/edimax/au/wireless_routers_ac1200/br-6478ac/

BTW, my 'inside the switch' knowledge software or firmware is near nil

sorry earlier copy/paste miscue
_________________
Defund the FCC.


Last edited by DONAHUE on Fri Apr 10, 2015 4:35 pm; edited 2 times in total
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Cr0t
l33t
l33t


Joined: 27 Apr 2002
Posts: 944
Location: USA

PostPosted: Fri Apr 10, 2015 4:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

DONAHUE wrote:
BTW, my 'inside the switch' knowledge software or firmware is near nil
What are you connected to? Do you have a model?
_________________
cya
    ©®0t
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
DONAHUE
Watchman
Watchman


Joined: 09 Dec 2006
Posts: 7651
Location: Goose Creek SC

PostPosted: Fri Apr 10, 2015 4:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

http://www.edimax.com/edimax/merchandise/merchandise_detail/data/edimax/au/wireless_routers_ac1200/br-6478ac/
_________________
Defund the FCC.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
NeddySeagoon
Administrator
Administrator


Joined: 05 Jul 2003
Posts: 54122
Location: 56N 3W

PostPosted: Fri Apr 10, 2015 10:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Cr0t,

Many r8169 compatible chips take firmware to fix bugs.
dmesg may show if r8169 tried to load a firwware patch.

Its well worth making r8169 a module and checking if you can have a firmware patch.

Code:
ls /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/
rtl8105e-1.fw  rtl8107e-1.fw  rtl8168d-2.fw  rtl8168e-3.fw  rtl8168g-1.fw  rtl8168h-1.fw  rtl8411-1.fw
rtl8106e-1.fw  rtl8107e-2.fw  rtl8168e-1.fw  rtl8168f-1.fw  rtl8168g-2.fw  rtl8168h-2.fw  rtl8411-2.fw
rtl8106e-2.fw  rtl8168d-1.fw  rtl8168e-2.fw  rtl8168f-2.fw  rtl8168g-3.fw  rtl8402-1.fw


Hmm rtl8411-1.fw and rtl8411-2.fw look promising for
Code:
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 06)

_________________
Regards,

NeddySeagoon

Computer users fall into two groups:-
those that do backups
those that have never had a hard drive fail.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
DONAHUE
Watchman
Watchman


Joined: 09 Dec 2006
Posts: 7651
Location: Goose Creek SC

PostPosted: Fri Apr 10, 2015 10:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I do use modules for NIC drivers and emerge linux-firmware unedited so would benefit from any firmware updates that Neddy suspects.

@Neddy
I think OP is using r8168 at present.

Edit: dmesg shows no associated fw loading.
_________________
Defund the FCC.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
krinn
Watchman
Watchman


Joined: 02 May 2003
Posts: 7470

PostPosted: Sat Apr 11, 2015 1:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 02)
Never had any trouble with this one, but i'm using it in 100mb
Code:
eth0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        inet 192.168.0.4  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 192.168.0.255
        ether 00:26:18:2f:cc:06  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 4116659  bytes 5832290961 (5.4 GiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 2501683  bytes 194838296 (185.8 MiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0


Isn't your problem more about 1000mb than negotiation, you said to turn off negotiation you have to be in 100mbps, while i'm running it with negotiation, and user may think turning off negotiation fix the problem while in fact, it is switching to 100mb to be able to switch negotiation that did fix it.

i don't have any /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/ directory, and here's my current ethtool settings:
Code:
ethtool eth0
Settings for eth0:
   Supported ports: [ TP MII ]
   Supported link modes:   10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                           100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
                           1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full
   Supported pause frame use: No
   Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
   Advertised link modes:  10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                           100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
                           1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full
   Advertised pause frame use: Symmetric Receive-only
   Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
   Link partner advertised link modes:  10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                                        100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
   Link partner advertised pause frame use: Symmetric
   Link partner advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
   Speed: 100Mb/s
   Duplex: Full
   Port: MII
   PHYAD: 0
   Transceiver: internal
   Auto-negotiation: on
   Supports Wake-on: pumbg
   Wake-on: g
   Current message level: 0x00000033 (51)
                drv probe ifdown ifup
   Link detected: yes
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Display posts from previous:   
Reply to topic    Gentoo Forums Forum Index Networking & Security All times are GMT
Page 1 of 1

 
Jump to:  
You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum