FreeBSD nfe driver for NVIDIA nForce network adapter

[Shigeaki Tagashira]

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
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S. Tagashira