>Number: 153610 >Category: kern >Synopsis: nfe0 malfunction at boot time >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sat Jan 01 23:10:10 UTC 2011 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Ronald F. Guilmette >Release: FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE amd64 >Organization: Infinite Monkeys & Co. >Environment:
FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE amd64 Gigabyte GA-m55plus-S3G nmotherboard w/ Nvidia 430 Southbridge Onboard Ethernet port hardwired up to a stock Linksys WRT54G wireless router configured for static (i.e. NO DHCP) >Description: Upon boot-up of the GA-m55plus-S3G based system, I get an (unending?) stream of console/syslog messages exactly like this: nfe0: discard frame w/o leading ethernet header (len 0 pkt len 0) After googling around awhile, I learned that this is an old, and apparently still unsolved problem: http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/freebsd-current/2008/1/18/578972 The thread above suggested that I try manually down-ing and then up-ing the nfe0 interface. I did that, and yes, that causes the problem to go away and after that up/down the interface seems to be functioning normally. However this server SHOULD be able to recover gracefully from, e.g., power failures, even when I am out of town, so what am I supposed to do? Should I add "manual" down & up commands for this interface to my /etc/rc.local file?? Ideally, I shouldn't have to do that (and I'm not even 100% sure that even doing that will produce reliable results). >How-To-Repeat: See above. Get yourself a motherboard with an Nvidia 430 Southbridge on it, and then wire up the ethernet port from that to a stock Linksys WRT54G, set the Linksys box to NO DHCP (although that probably doesn't matter), give the nfe0 device a static IP in your /etc/rc.conf file (although that probably doesn't matter either), and then do a cold restart. >Fix: Beats me. I am forced to workaround this for now by installing a cheapie Realtek ethernet card (which most certainly works). That's a pity, because I wanted to try using the gigabit capability of the onboard Nvidia ethernet port. Oh well. I'll live. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: _______________________________________________ freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-bugs To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-bugs-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
