Realtek r8169 always flapping

Kseniya Blashchuk ksyblast at gmail.com
Tue Oct 27 07:27:30 UTC 2015


BTW, I thought maybe its not a driver but a NIC issue and some of the pins
dont work properly. Maybe anybody knows how to check if all NIC pins are
working?

вт, 27 окт. 2015 г. в 9:07, Kseniya Blashchuk <ksyblast at gmail.com>:

> Tried setting just speed 1000 duplex full - no difference.
> After that set speed 1000 duplex full on a switch side - link down O_o.
> After changing to 100 everything is working.
> Now set ETHTOOL_OPTS="autoneg off speed 100 duplex full" only on my side
> (and auto on a switch - standard port config)
> No flapping so far on 100Mbps. I think I will use this workaround, still
> very strange why it doesn't work properly on 1000, I guess its a kernel
> module problem or something like that. If anybody still has any suggestions
> about 1Gbps - you are welcome :).
>
> пн, 26 окт. 2015 г. в 21:47, Rick Stevens <ricks at alldigital.com>:
>
>> On 10/26/2015 11:24 AM, Kseniya Blashchuk wrote:
>> > I tried disabling autoneg, and it helped, but in this case dot1x auth
>> > doesn't work for some reason, I didn't have time to troubleshoot why,
>> > but there is no mac address on a switch port when dot1x is enabled.
>> > But i didn't try setting speed 1000 duplex full on a switch side. I'll
>> > try it tomorrow once again.
>>
>> Not sure what's on the end of your dot1x, but it may be part of the
>> autonegotiation process to make that all work. You can leave autoneg
>> on to get by that, but still set the speeds and such once its done. That
>> may get squonked (new word) by future negotiations. Dunno.
>>
>> > On Mon, Oct 26, 2015, 9:14 PM Rick Stevens <ricks at alldigital.com
>> > <mailto:ricks at alldigital.com>> wrote:
>> >
>> >     On 10/26/2015 09:57 AM, Kseniya Blashchuk wrote:
>> >      > Hi everyone!
>> >      > I noticed in dmesg that my ethernet link is flapping all the time
>> >      > [Oct25 18:55] r8169 0000:02:00.0 enp2s0: link down
>> >      > [  +3.131667] r8169 0000:02:00.0 enp2s0: link up
>> >      > [Oct25 18:56] r8169 0000:02:00.0 enp2s0: link down
>> >      > [  +2.763688] r8169 0000:02:00.0 enp2s0: link up
>> >      > [Oct25 18:59] r8169 0000:02:00.0 enp2s0: link down
>> >      > [  +3.060069] r8169 0000:02:00.0 enp2s0: link up
>> >      > [Oct25 19:00] r8169 0000:02:00.0 enp2s0: link down
>> >      > [  +3.559610] r8169 0000:02:00.0 enp2s0: link up
>> >      > I changed the cabling, tried to plug into another switch no
>> >     difference.
>> >      > Any ideas will be very appreciated as this flapping brings a lot
>> of
>> >      > inconvenience.
>> >      > My device in lspci:
>> >      > 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
>> >      > RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev
>> 10)
>> >
>> >     Uhm, could be a kernel issue or a driver issue. Generally when I see
>> >     that sort of thing it's an auto speed or auto duplex negotiation
>> between
>> >     the driver and switch that isn't working. You could try forcing the
>> >     speed and duplex via something like:
>> >
>> >              sudo ethtool -s enp2s0 autoneg off duplex full speed 1000
>> >
>> >     to set a fixed 1Gbps, full duplex connection and see if that helps
>> >     stabilize things. If that works you could try to restart auto
>> >     renegotiation via
>> >
>> >              sudo ethtool -s enp2s0 autoneg on
>> >              sudo ethtool -r enp2s0
>> >
>> >     The first comment re-enables autonegotiation, the second forces a
>> >     renegotiation.
>> >
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