From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 1 07:54:13 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF50B106566B for ; Sat, 1 Oct 2011 07:54:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from conrads@cox.net) Received: from eastrmfepo201.cox.net (eastrmfepo201.cox.net [68.230.241.216]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C4798FC0C for ; Sat, 1 Oct 2011 07:54:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from eastrmimpo02.cox.net ([68.1.16.120]) by eastrmfepo201.cox.net (InterMail vM.8.01.04.00 201-2260-137-20101110) with ESMTP id <20111001075407.GCDO12561.eastrmfepo201.cox.net@eastrmimpo02.cox.net> for ; Sat, 1 Oct 2011 03:54:07 -0400 Received: from serene.no-ip.org ([98.164.86.236]) by eastrmimpo02.cox.net with bizsmtp id fKu61h00Y55wwzE02Ku7bd; Sat, 01 Oct 2011 03:54:07 -0400 X-CT-Class: Clean X-CT-Score: 0.00 X-CT-RefID: str=0001.0A02020B.4E86C71F.0038,ss=1,re=0.000,fgs=0 X-CT-Spam: 0 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.1 cv=oaIW6hvuqrvZuBstGxzMQDCn9/QU+BfQ2mb81G/9NAc= c=1 sm=1 a=G8Uczd0VNMoA:10 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=uAbGmPAyUfLL1M3oYAsfuA==:17 a=AfEfcmvjAAAA:8 a=kviXuzpPAAAA:8 a=4WCIvTwjKIpihCOz0DUA:9 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 a=2A2gPVWjU-cA:10 a=4vB-4DCPJfMA:10 a=uAbGmPAyUfLL1M3oYAsfuA==:117 X-CM-Score: 0.00 Authentication-Results: cox.net; none Received: from cox.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by serene.no-ip.org (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id p917s6IB069409 for ; Sat, 1 Oct 2011 02:54:06 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from conrads@cox.net) Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2011 02:54:01 -0500 From: "Conrad J. Sabatier" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20111001025401.73645710@cox.net> In-Reply-To: <20110928154437.60eb7864@scorpio> References: <20110928154437.60eb7864@scorpio> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.10 (GTK+ 2.24.6; amd64-portbld-freebsd9.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Error during boot-up X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2011 07:54:13 -0000 On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:44:37 -0400 Jerry wrote: > From time to time when booting up or rebooting on of my FreeBSD-8.2 > amd 64 machines, the following error message is displayed ad > infinitum: > > nfe0: discard frame w/o leading ethernet header (len 0 pkt len 0) > > All I can do is repeatedly hit +C until the log-on screen > appears. Then log-in as root and reboot. Sometimes this works and > sometimes it doesn't. The same phenomena may happen repeatedly 10 > times or more or suddenly just disappear. I have tried using > "ifconfig" to bring the network up when this happens but it fails. > Only a reboot seems to make any difference. > > I am at a loss to figure out how to correct this problem or even what > is causing it. It just suddenly started approximately three months > ago. I have changed routers so I think I can safely eliminate that as > the source of the problem. None of my Windows machines have ever > complained about this so I am wondering if it isn't local to FreeBSD. > I think the problem first manifested itself after updating to the > "8.2" version since I do not remember it happening prior to that. > Have you ruled out a possible hardware problem (defect, interface "going bad")? -- Conrad J. Sabatier conrads@cox.net