"no toe capability on..."

[Warren Block]

On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, Ewald Jenisch wrote:

> Today I updated kernel & system on one of my machines (FreeBSD
> 7.0). After the update which ran absolutely smooth I'm seeing spurious
> messages both on the console and in /var/log/messages like the
> following:
>
> no toe capability on 0xc2e66400
>
>
> Grep-ing through the sources I found the above message to come from
> /usr/src/sys/netinet/tcp_offload.c. As far as I understand this has
> something to do with TcpOffloadEngine.
>
> Please note that this is a box several years old (2GHz P4) with three
> Intel FXP FastEthernet-cards.
>
> So here are my questions:
>
> o) Has anybody else seen the above messages?

Yes, same here on a VIA motherboard with a vr interface.

> o) Can they safely be ignored?

Looks like it.  They're debug messages that shouldn't still be in there. 
They were removed in version 1.2 but then reappeared in 1.4.2.1:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/netinet/tcp_offload.c
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/netinet/tcp_offload.c.diff?r1=1.1;r2=1.2
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/netinet/tcp_offload.c.diff?r1=1.4;r2=1.4.2.1

Thanks for locating the source of the problem.  I entered a PR (#126138) 
but forgot to put in a pointer to your message--and now can't, since the 
PR database claims #126138 doesn't exist.  I'll try again later.

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA