From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 28 19:44:41 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88F46106566B for ; Wed, 28 Sep 2011 19:44:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jerry@seibercom.net) Received: from mail-yi0-f54.google.com (mail-yi0-f54.google.com [209.85.218.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E95A8FC08 for ; Wed, 28 Sep 2011 19:44:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yia13 with SMTP id 13so8476967yia.13 for ; Wed, 28 Sep 2011 12:44:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.236.187.2 with SMTP id x2mr58399793yhm.95.1317239080624; Wed, 28 Sep 2011 12:44:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scorpio.seibercom.net (cpe-076-182-105-057.nc.res.rr.com. [76.182.105.57]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id s8sm91269437ani.3.2011.09.28.12.44.39 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 28 Sep 2011 12:44:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scorpio (zeus [192.168.1.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: jerry@scorpio.seibercom.net) by scorpio.seibercom.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3S88ck0LYhz2CG48 for ; Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:44:38 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:44:37 -0400 From: Jerry To: FreeBSD Message-ID: <20110928154437.60eb7864@scorpio> Organization: seibercom.net X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.10 (GTK+ 2.24.6; amd64-portbld-freebsd8.2) Face: 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 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Error during boot-up X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: FreeBSD List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 19:44:41 -0000 =46rom time to time when booting up or rebooting on of my FreeBSD-8.2 amd 64 machines, the following error message is displayed ad infinitum: nfe0: discard frame w/o leading ethernet header (len 0 pkt len 0) All I can do is repeatedly hit +C until the log-on screen appears. Then log-in as root and reboot. Sometimes this works and sometimes it doesn't. The same phenomena may happen repeatedly 10 times or more or suddenly just disappear. I have tried using "ifconfig" to bring the network up when this happens but it fails. Only a reboot seems to make any difference. I am at a loss to figure out how to correct this problem or even what is causing it. It just suddenly started approximately three months ago. I have changed routers so I think I can safely eliminate that as the source of the problem. None of my Windows machines have ever complained about this so I am wondering if it isn't local to FreeBSD. I think the problem first manifested itself after updating to the "8.2" version since I do not remember it happening prior to that. --=20 Jerry =E2=9C=8C jerry+fbsd@seibercom.net Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or ignored. Do not CC this poster. Please do not ignore the "Reply-To" header. http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html