hi
does anyone have intstallation experiences with that board and trixbox 2.8???
or any board with ethernet from Realtek RTL8111/8168B
thanks for your reports
 
trixbox 2.8 on Intel D945GCLF2 (Realtek: RTL8111/8168B)
Submitted by cyrano on Sat, 07/04/2009 - 4:00pm.
Mainboard INTEL D945GSEJT,
Thu, 07/09/2009 - 9:58am
Mainboard INTEL D945GSEJT, RTL8111/8168B
Well, I had lots of dropped packages so I had to apply this fix:
http://elrepo.org/tiki/tiki-index.php
Now it works ;-)
Reinhard
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We use the LF2 motherboard
Thu, 07/09/2009 - 10:04am
We use the LF2 motherboard and works without issue...
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@jfinstrom
Did you check
Thu, 07/09/2009 - 11:25am
@jfinstrom
Did you check your network using
# ifconfig
Maybe you`ll find lots of dropped packages... :-)
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Dropped packages? I am
Thu, 07/09/2009 - 6:21pm
Dropped packages? I am going to hope you mean packets..
If you have a working driver and your network is running, and your seeing dropped packets, then the question to ask is why? Common issues are bad cabling, duplex mismatches, and stuff like that.
I guess the supplied driver could be horrible, but hard to imagine at the low data rates a trixbox system normally runs at the driver for a FE/GE port would collapse..
 
The packet drops stats are WRONG
Thu, 07/09/2009 - 9:53pm
Long story short, the packet drop stats are BS.
I have a SuperMicro Board with Nic's that show up as RTL8168c/8111c. I am thoroughly convinced the dropped packet statistics are BS.
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:30:48:B1:17:02
inet addr:192.168.1.1 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::230:48ff:feb1:1702/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:462200 errors:0 dropped:3474288748 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:548139 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:163667573 (156.0 MiB) TX bytes:189240250 (180.4 MiB)
Interrupt:50 Base address:0x4000 Every time I resend ifconfig or refresh the stats on the system status page, the dropped packets turns into some ridiculous number. I at first was worried before I did a file transfer from another machine, only to find out, absolutely NO packets were dropping. I have no idea what causes this. But I have three realtek based cards, two on board and one pci. The pci was the "problem" child, and after I reassigned what port was assigned to what eth interface, the packet drop bs shifted.
 
Topic!!
Thu, 07/09/2009 - 10:23pm
the original question is:
does tb 2.8 install work from the box on a board with that chip (Realtek: RTL8111/8168B)????????????????????
thanks for your answer on that question...
 
cyrano: Yes, infact the tb
Thu, 07/09/2009 - 11:20pm
cyrano: Yes, infact the tb appliance uses the realtek chipset mentioned so if no other ethernet works that one will.
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thanks
Fri, 07/10/2009 - 12:04am
so the problems the tb 2.6.2 made with that eth combination are over?
thanks for your answer
i can now install tb 2.8 without worries
 
Well, I am not sure, if you
Fri, 07/10/2009 - 11:34am
@antidelldude
Well, I am not sure, if you can ignore the dropped packets.
I also had this issue. Everytime I checked, I saw these huge numbers!
After I installed the fix for the Realtek 8168 chip, the dropped packets were 0.
best
Reinhard
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