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From: Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>
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Subject: nfe/PXE problem, was Re: nve related LOR triggered by lots of small 
 packets, and a hard hang
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hope i don't get shot for highjacking :-)
...
 > I tried the latest, and it 'seems' to work ok if I boot of the disk, but 
still having
 > problems when booting via PXE:
 > 
 > ...
 > nfe0: <NVIDIA nForce 430 MCP12 Networking Adapter> port 0xdc00-0xdc07 mem 
0xfe02c000-0xfe02cfff irq 22 at device 20.0 on pci0
 > nfe0: Ethernet address: 57:6c:a9:f3:18:00
 > miibus1: <MII bus> on nfe0
 > e1000phy0: <Marvell 88E1111 Gigabit PHY> PHY 11 on miibus1
 > e1000phy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseTX-FDX, 
auto
 > nfe0: [ITHREAD]
 > ...
 > nfs_diskless: no interface
 > ...
 > 
 > 	danny
 > PS: maybe it's time to change the Subject:?
 > 

> Yes, but I guess PXE booting has nothing to do with nfe(4).
> If my memory serve me right I've used 'options BOOTP_WIRED_TO=hme0'
> to net-boot on sparc64.

well, I can PXE boot this box if I use an fxp NIC, with the nfe I tracked the 
problem
to sys/nfsclient/nfs_diskless, where in nfs_setup_diskless(void)
it does not find the nfe interface, ie, something does not match, but the 
interface
was detected!.
i'll try and do some more debugging.

danny