Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 18:40:19 -0500 From: Nathan Whitehorn <nathanw@uchicago.edu> To: Andre Boehm <andre@abtime.de> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD nfe driver for NVIDIA nForce network adapter Message-ID: <44612863.4040300@uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <4460DC4A.7070106@abtime.de> References: <44506B8B.4090605@se.hiroshima-u.ac.jp> <4460DC4A.7070106@abtime.de>
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Andre Boehm wrote: > Hello, > > I tried if_nfe on my ASUS A8N-E with nForce4 chipset. > FreeBSD-6.1-RELEASE/amd64, because of problems with if_nve. > At first, everything seems to look fine from looking at dmesg and > ifconfig, but then no traffic seems to come in or goes out. > > When I switched back by unloading if_nfe and loading if_nve, starting > /etc/netstart, I received an email notice by arpwatch (on my office > router) that the MAC address of my NIC had changed, showing the digits > in reverse order. I'm experiencing the same problem on a Sunfire X2100 (also nForce 4), except that receive works reliably (I also get the MAC reversal). Transmit, however, rapidly starts to fail, resulting in a kernel panic on a fast link. I suspect an mbuf leak, as the performance is fine for a while (a couple seconds), then starts falling off quickly to a low, stable value (0 for 100 Mbit, ~80 kb/s for 10 Mbit). -Nathan
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