kern/70860: 5.3-BETA1 lnc driver on vlance interface under VMWare ESX 2.1.1 not working

[Henri Hennebert]

>Number:         70860
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       5.3-BETA1 lnc driver on vlance interface under VMWare ESX 2.1.1 not working
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Aug 23 13:30:22 GMT 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Henri Hennebert
>Release:        5.3-BERA1
>Organization:
CIGER sa
>Environment:
FreeBSD fairbanks.cigersoft.be 5.3-BETA1 FreeBSD 5.3-BETA1 #0 Aug 23 12:40:20 CEST 2004    root at fairbanks.cigersoft.be:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/FAIRBANKS  i386
>Description:
FreeBSD running under VMWare ESX server 2.1.1 - virtual network adapter
defined as 'vlance'

I upgrade a VM from 5.2-CURRENT (Aug 23 2004) to 5.3-BETA1.

In 5.2-CURRENT lnc driver output, from time to time:
lnc0: Missed packet -- no receive buffer
but the network connection to/from the VM was OK

In 5.3-BETA1 I get the same error but this time fallowed by:
last message repeated 1432 times (for example)
and the network is completely unusable.

>How-To-Repeat:
I reboot the VM, the problem is the same; other VM have access to the
world without problem.
>Fix:
      
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