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Date:      Wed, 21 Feb 2007 12:17:52 +0200
From:      Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>
To:        "Andrey V. Elsukov" <bu7cher@yandex.ru>
Cc:        pyunyh@gmail.com, "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net>, FreeBSD current mailing list <current@freebsd.org>, Sergey Zaharchenko <doublef-ctm@yandex.ru>
Subject:   Re: nve related LOR triggered by lots of small packets, and a hard  hang
Message-ID:  <E1HJoXo-000Imh-BK@cs1.cs.huji.ac.il>
In-Reply-To: <45DA9F40.1070604@yandex.ru> 
References:  <20070110120731.GA1515@shark.localdomain>  <20070210171130.D47107@maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net> <45D98B62.1060402@yandex.ru> <20070220014535.GC912@cdnetworks.co.kr> <45DA9F40.1070604@yandex.ru>

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> Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
> > Because your dmesg for nfe(4) shows 'obsoleted if_watchdog interface'
> > message I think you've used stock nfe(4) on CURRENT.
> > Try overhauld nfe(4) at the following URL.
> > 
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/nfe/if_nfe.c
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/nfe/if_nfereg.h
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/nfe/if_nfevar.h
> > 
> > The new nfe(4) has several protections for watchdog timeout errors
> > reported on the driver. One user repored TSO related issues for
> > the new driver so if you encounter strange errors in the new driver
> > please turn off TSO capability(e.g. #ifconfig nfe0 -tso)
> 
hi,
I'm having 2 - probably related - problems:
1- on a diskless host, it boots via PXE, attaches the NIC
   but somehow the mount root nsf is bypassed.
2- booting of the disk, and with ifconfig_nfe0="DHCP", dhclient
   fails.

if I run:
	dhclient nfe0
all is fine.

adding 'net.inet.tcp.tso="0"' to sysctl.conf fixed 2, but
adding the same to loader.conf did not help with the PXE boot.

danny





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