From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 10 09:25:05 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45C4016A402 for ; Wed, 10 May 2006 09:25:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from shigeaki@se.hiroshima-u.ac.jp) Received: from condor.se.hiroshima-u.ac.jp (condor.se.hiroshima-u.ac.jp [133.41.33.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B319B43D45 for ; Wed, 10 May 2006 09:25:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from shigeaki@se.hiroshima-u.ac.jp) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (maroon.se.hiroshima-u.ac.jp [192.168.128.148]) by condor.se.hiroshima-u.ac.jp with ESMTP id k4A9Ovov030459; Wed, 10 May 2006 18:24:57 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <4461B16E.2050903@se.hiroshima-u.ac.jp> Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 18:25:02 +0900 From: Shigeaki Tagashira User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Windows/20060308) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andre Boehm References: <44506B8B.4090605@se.hiroshima-u.ac.jp> <4460DC4A.7070106@abtime.de> In-Reply-To: <4460DC4A.7070106@abtime.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.1.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.1 (2006-03-10) on condor.se.hiroshima-u.ac.jp Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD nfe driver for NVIDIA nForce network adapter X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 09:25:05 -0000 Andre Boehm wrote: > 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. > > When again switching the kernel module, ifconfig shows sometimes the old > MAC address, sometimes reversed. With both modules, nfe and nve, the MAC > adress gets changed, or maybe nve keeps the changed address and nfe > changes its back again and so on. This is a known issue of nForce network adapters. I resolved it with version 20060510. Thanks --- S. Tagashira