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Date:      Sun, 8 Feb 2009 13:22:59 +0200
From:      Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
To:        Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: impossible packet length ...
Message-ID:  <20090208112259.GW9427@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>
In-Reply-To: <E1LW5Ht-0000VH-D8@kabab.cs.huji.ac.il>
References:  <E1LW5Ht-0000VH-D8@kabab.cs.huji.ac.il>

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On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 10:45:13AM +0200, Danny Braniss wrote:
> I'm reposting this to hackers, and there is some more info.
>=20
> > Hi,
> > on 2 different servers, running 7.1-stable + zfs, I get this
> > error rather frequently:
> >=20
> > Feb  5 17:01:03 warhol-00 kernel: impossible packet length (543383918) =
from=20
> > nfs server sunfire:/dist
> > Feb  5 17:01:03 warhol-00 kernel: impossible packet length (1936028704)=
 from=20
> > nfs server sunfire:/dist
> > Feb  5 17:01:03 warhol-00 kernel: impossible packet length (1869363744)=
 from=20
> > nfs server sunfire:/dist
> > Feb  5 17:01:03 warhol-00 kernel: impossible packet length (1667787057)=
 from=20
> > nfs server sunfire:/dist
> > Feb  5 17:01:03 warhol-00 kernel: impossible packet length (976040755) =
from=20
> > nfs server sunfire:/dist
> > Feb  5 17:01:03 warhol-00 kernel: impossible packet length (1953459488)=
 from=20
> > nfs server sunfire:/dist
> > Feb  5 17:01:03 warhol-00 kernel: impossible packet length (1348825156)=
 from=20
> > nfs server sunfire:/dist
> > Feb  5 17:01:03 warhol-00 kernel: impossible packet length (0) from nfs=
 server=20
> > sunfire:/dist
> > Feb  5 17:01:03 warhol-00 kernel: impossible packet length (1647208041)=
 from=20
> > nfs server sunfire:/dist
> >=20
> > in this case the server is running Freebsd-7.0-stable, but I also get i=
t when=20
> > the server is a
> > netapp.
> >=20
> > is there a connection?
> >=20
> > thanks,
> > 	danny
>=20
> going through the logs, after it happened again, I got a glimps of this:
>=20
> Feb  6 18:00:13 warhol-00.cs.huji.ac.il kernel: bce0: discard frame w/o=
=20
> leading ethernet header (len 0 pkt len 0)
> Feb  6 18:00:19 klee-05.cs.huji.ac.il kernel: nfs: server warhol-00 not=
=20
> responding, timed out
> ...
> Feb  6 19:00:00 warhol-00.cs.huji.ac.il amd[715]: More than a single valu=
e for=20
> /defaults in hesiod.local
> Feb  6 19:00:00 warhol-00.cs.huji.ac.il amd[715]: Unknown $ sequence in=
=20
> "rhost:=3D${RHOST};type:=3Dnfsl;fs:=3D${FS};rfs:=3D$huldig<C0>#^ZM-^KoM- =
abase"
> Feb  6 19:00:00 warhol-00.cs.huji.ac.il kernel: impossible packet length=
=20
> (2068989523) from nfs server sunfire:/dist
>=20
> which seems to point fingers at bce...

bce(4) is broken in stable, your best option is to revert to the
driver in releng 7.1.

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