kern/152150: nfe(4) not working on Asus P5N32-SLI Premium motherboard (nforce 590)

[yongari at FreeBSD.org]

Synopsis: nfe(4) not working on Asus P5N32-SLI Premium motherboard (nforce 590)

State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback
State-Changed-By: yongari
State-Changed-When: Thu Nov 11 23:59:50 UTC 2010
State-Changed-Why: 
It seems you have three issues here.
 o watchdog timeout issue
 o can't send/receive frames with either DHCP and static IP assignment
 o generate bogus traffic storm which in turn make systems connected to
   switch lost connection 

For watchdog timeout issue, would you try the patch at the
following URL?
http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/nfe/nfe.watchdog.diff

The second issue could be related with tracking of link state
change. The patch above will show "LINK UP" message on your console
if nfe(4) think it established a link. Otherwise it would print
"LINK DOWN". In order to send/receive frames, you always have to
see "LINK UP" message first. Please check whether you can see the
message with DHCP or static IP configuration.

I have no idea for the last issue. Can you see what kind of traffic
is generated on link partner side? I think you can connect two
systems with straight cable and see what kind of traffic does the
nfe(4) generate on other system with tcpdump. If it's 802.3x flow
control traffic I have idea how to keep it from happening.


Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->yongari
Responsible-Changed-By: yongari
Responsible-Changed-When: Thu Nov 11 23:59:50 UTC 2010
Responsible-Changed-Why: 
Grab.

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=152150