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Date:      Fri, 1 Aug 2008 11:18:16 +1000
From:      Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: "no toe capability on..."
Message-ID:  <20080801111816.6e277b1d@ayiin>
In-Reply-To: <20080731120921.GA9754@aurora.oekb.co.at>
References:  <20080731120921.GA9754@aurora.oekb.co.at>

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On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:09:21 +0200
Ewald Jenisch <a@jenisch.at> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Today I updated kernel & system on one of my machines (FreeBSD
> 7.0). After the update which ran absolutely smooth I'm seeing spurious
> messages both on the console and in /var/log/messages like the
> following:
> 
> no toe capability on 0xc2e66400

+1 , different address:

no toe capability on 0xc48e3800

bge0: <Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Controller, ASIC rev. 0x4101> mem 0xb0200000-0xb020ffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci2

 
> 
> Grep-ing through the sources I found the above message to come from
> /usr/src/sys/netinet/tcp_offload.c. As far as I understand this has
> something to do with TcpOffloadEngine.

yup

> 
> Please note that this is a box several years old (2GHz P4) with three
> Intel FXP FastEthernet-cards.
> 
> So here are my questions:
> 
> o) Has anybody else seen the above messages? 
> 
> o) Can they safely be ignored?
> 
> o) If not - what can I do to get rid of them?
> 

they seem harmless enough.

B

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