[elrepo] serious design flaw in network kmod rpms

[Tuan Hoang]

Main reason for the Realtek OEM drivers is PTP and RSS support. 
Tuan


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On Wednesday, December 3, 2025, 2:07 PM, Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com> wrote:

On Wed, Dec 3, 2025 at 9:02 AM Farkas Levente <lfarkas at lfarkas.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Dec 2, 2025 at 7:28 PM Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Levente ,
>>
>> Thanks for the note. I suppose there is no "one-size-fit-all" solution
>> to the issue. The original reason why r8169 was blacklisted was that,
>> with the kmod-r8125 in RHEL 10, it still used the r8169 driver. Of
>> course, when you have 2 NICs, the situation is not as simple as
>> disabling one driver or the other.
>>
>> We'd like to get a good and reasonable solution but in the mean time,
>> we could revert the change if that works as a temporary fix.
>
>
> we just install a fresh almalinux 10.1 without any kind of external repo to computer which has 2 different realtek card:
> # lspci -nn|grep -i eth
> 03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8125 2.5GbE Controller [10ec:8125] (rev 05)
> 04:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller [10ec:8161] (rev 15)
>
> and it's working fine with the original r8169 driver with 2.6Gb/s.
> so what was the reason for kmod-rr8125?

Our kmod is built from the source downloaded from Realtek. The
changelog has this:

- Update to 9.016.01
- Disable fiber support

You don't need this package is the original driver in the kernel is
working fine.

Akemi
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