nfe(4) strangeness on the 7-CURRENT

[Eygene Ryabinkin]

Good day.

I had recently upgraded my amd64 box to the 7-CURRENT and started
using nfe(4) instead of nve(4),  because the latter was almost
unusable on the moderate traffic flow from the amd64 box to some
other machine due to the watchdog timeouts.

But the stock nfe(4) was not good too: it provoked some kernel
crashes.  So, I resorted to the nfe(4) driver from
http://www.f.csce.kyushu-u.ac.jp/~shigeaki/software/freebsd-nfe.html

Things are working, but I have many kernel messages like this:
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TCP: [third_local_machine]:65385 to [second_local_machine]:443 tcpflags 0x4<RST>; tcp_input
: Listen socket: Spurious RST, segment rejected
TCP: [127.0.0.1]:61775 to [127.0.0.1]:40001 tcpflags 0x11<FIN,ACK>; syncache_expand: Segment failed SYNCOOKIE authentication, segment rejected (probably spoofed)
TCP: [third_local_machine]:63851 to [second_local_machine]:443 tcpflags 0x4<RST>; tcp_input: Listen socket: Spurious RST, segment rejected
TCP: [third_local_machine]:62901 to [second_local_machine]:443 tcpflags 0x4<RST>; tcp_input: Listen socket: Spurious RST, segment rejected
TCP: [third_local_machine]:55359 to [second_local_machine]:443 tcpflags 0x4<RST>; tcp_input: Listen socket: Spurious RST, segment rejected
TCP: [209.132.176.167]:60779 to [first_local_machine]:25 tcpflags 0x4<RST>; tcp_input: Listen socket: Spurious RST, segment rejected
TCP: [69.147.83.53]:54604 to [first_local_machine]:25 tcpflags 0x4<RST>; tcp_input: Listen socket: Spurious RST, segment rejected
TCP: [third_local_machine]:63187 to [second_local_machine]:443 tcpflags 0x4<RST>; tcp_input: Listen socket: Spurious RST, segment rejected
TCP: [209.132.176.167]:38662 to [first_local_machine]:25 tcpflags 0x4<RST>; tcp_input: Listen socket: Spurious RST, segment rejected
TCP: [209.132.176.167]:38662 to [first_local_machine]:25 tcpflags 0x4<RST>; tcp_input: Listen socket: Spurious RST, segment rejected
TCP: [127.0.0.1]:60500 to [127.0.0.1]:40001 tcpflags 0x11<FIN,ACK>; syncache_expand: Segment failed SYNCOOKIE authentication, segment rejected (probably spoofed)
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I would count this as the hardware or driver failures, but the
messages for the 127.0.0.1 shows that this is not related to the
packet corruption in the NIC driver.  And SSH transfers are working
fine, so if there would be packet corruption, then it will broke
SSH MAC layer.

The motherboard is ASUS M2NPV-VM.  The device itself is detected
as
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nfe0: <NVIDIA nForce 430 MCP13 Networking Adapter> port 0xc800-0xc807 mem 0xfe02b000-0xfe02bfff irq 22 at device 20.0 on pci0
miibus0: <MII bus> on nfe0
e1000phy0: <Marvell 88E1116 Gigabit PHY> PHY 1 on miibus0
e1000phy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseTX-FDX, auto
nfe0: Ethernet address: 00:18:f3:97:38:85
nfe0: [FILTER]
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The kernel signature is '7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #3: Fri Jun  8
06:26:42 MSD 2007'.

The non-default part of my -CURRENT is the usb4bsd stack instead
of the stock one.  But I had the same error messages without usb4bsd.

Should I just relax and ignore the messages, or this is the sign
of the brokenness?

Thank you!
-- 
Eygene