Hi Folks,

 

since i use unraid v6, i have issues with this f*** RTL8111E 

After 6-8 wakeups from sleep, the NIC is "gone" and the server is unresponsible.

Only a Hard-Reset helps.

I did several Tests but i cant find anythig strange.

Maybe someone with the same strange issue can give me an advice?

 

Thanks 

The advice everyone is going to give you is - install an Intel NIC (and disable the Realtek).  Realtek's have been constantly problematic.  The Intel gives you stability and a little better performance, but costs you a slot.

Hi RobJ,

 

thanks for your reply - that 's what I thought - then it's supposed to be like that.

Only Problem is, both PCIe-Slots are taken by the Adaptec-Controllers and the remaining slots are PCI - bäää 

So i will take a Intel Pro 1000GT as PCI 

Alternatively, if your problems are only to do with the Realtek not waking up (and you're otherwise happy with its performance) can you prevent it from sleeping in the first place? A BIOS thing or a ping thing, perhaps?

 

Hi John_M,

 

the point is, my unraid is only a Plex-Streaming-Server so it has to go to sleep because electricity is very expensive here in Austria 

The Performance of the 8111E is excellent - moves constantly 118MB/sek (944MBit) over the GBit-LAN but the crap thing is this f*** "wakup-not-always-working"

issue. Its terrible and not usefull when i am away and cant start the server over the inet because the NIC is not coming up.

It seems that LimeTech has changed the Driver for this NIC because under v5 it was working well and had no issues with wakeup from sleep.

I did some tests with an old GB-PCI-NIC with a RTL8169SC. This NIC has no issues but is terrible slow - gives me only 65MB/sek over LAN - crap! 

This NIC has no issues but is terrible slow - gives me only 65MB/sek over LAN - crap! 

What happens if you leave both adapters enabled and let unraid balance them? Would the WOL still work and while most transfers used the higher speed connection?

 

I have no clue whether or not it would work, but it shouldn't hurt to try.

Balancing is not possible because the Switch cant do this

 

EDIT: Feedback from my side: Intel Pro 1000GT (PCI) Network flow capacity: 99MB/sek (792MBit)

Not bad for a PCI-NIC 

Balancing is not possible because the Switch cant do this

Not all balance modes require switch support.

When I looked up the Specs on the PCI buss, it should be able to handle 100MB/sec without an issue.  (Max is 133MB/sec.)  Now finding a 1Gb PCI NIC card may be a bigger issue. 

The Intel Pro 1000GT PCI-NIC is listed since 11.2004 and still available