if_nfe on nVidia chipset

[Shigeaki Tagashira]

Hello, sorry for my late response.

Please try to disable checksum offload.

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Shigeaki Tagashira

Palle Girgensohn wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Just discovered a problem that seems to be related to the if_nfe module.
> 
> When trying a java applet from firefox, the computer reproducibly hang 
> completely, or at least disappears from the network. (We run NIS and 
> NFS, so a machine without a network is in fact hung... :)
> 
> The applet is rather resource demanding, it seems, but nothing out of 
> the ordinary - the URL is 
> <http://www.dessci.com/en/products/webeq/interactive/inputctrlex1.htm>. 
> Directing firefox to that url reproducably kills the computer, and the 
> same page with another network (slower) card will not hang the computer.
> 
> Here's the rather quiet log from messages:
> 
> 
> Feb 19 13:41:47 apelsin kernel: nfe0: watchdog timeout (missed Tx 
> interrupts) -- recovering
> Feb 19 13:41:57 apelsin kernel: nfe0: watchdog timeout (missed Tx 
> interrupts) -- recovering
> Feb 19 13:42:03 apelsin /usr/sbin/ypbind[800]: NIS server 
> [192.168.1.184] for domain "Musik" not responding
> Feb 19 13:42:34 apelsin last message repeated 31 times
> Feb 19 13:44:35 apelsin last message repeated 121 times
> Feb 19 13:45:28 apelsin last message repeated 53 times
> Feb 19 13:45:29 apelsin kernel: nfe0: watchdog timeout (missed Tx 
> interrupts) -- recovering
> Feb 19 13:45:29 apelsin /usr/sbin/ypbind[800]: NIS server 
> [192.168.1.184] for domain "Musik" not responding
> Feb 19 13:47:59 apelsin syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/kernel/kernel
> Feb 19 13:47:59 apelsin kernel: Copyright (c) 1992-2007 The FreeBSD 
> Project.
> Feb 19 13:47:59 apelsin kernel: Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 
> 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
> Feb 19 13:47:59 apelsin kernel: The Regents of the University of 
> California. All rights reserved.
> Feb 19 13:47:59 apelsin kernel: FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The 
> FreeBSD Foundation.
> Feb 19 13:47:59 apelsin kernel: FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #3: Wed Feb 14 
> 09:12:35 CET 2007
> 
> reset button was hit around 13:46...
> 
> IS i
> --On fredag, februari 16, 2007 12.51.51 -0600 Brian Smith 
> <brian at dbsoft.org> wrote:
> 
>> Shigeaki Tagashira wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Please try to use generic PHY driver (ukphy) instead of e1000phy;
>>> i.e., use nfe without the patch for e1000phy.
>> I've switched to FreeBSD 7 and I think the e100phy.c patches are already
>> in the source tree?
>>
>> Is there an unpatched version for FreeBSD 7?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Brian
> 
> 
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