Sunfire X2200 ipfw and bge issues

[Lisa Besko]

Lisa Besko wrote:

> Now any ideas on why they system reboots every time the ethernet cable 
> is plugged in to the bge0 port?  or why the nve ethernet ports are not 
> recognized?
> 
> I am getting an error the next time it reboots that says something like 
> "hyper transport sync flood" error and I have to press F1 to get it to 
> reboot.  That error is from the BIOS I believe.

I still have no idea why this was happening but I did disable the bge 
driver in the kernel and then patch the nve driver as stated in

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-bugs/2006-November/020926.html

and I was able to get the system up on the network.

LB