Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 18:25:02 +0900 From: Shigeaki Tagashira <shigeaki@se.hiroshima-u.ac.jp> To: Andre Boehm <andre@abtime.de> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD nfe driver for NVIDIA nForce network adapter Message-ID: <4461B16E.2050903@se.hiroshima-u.ac.jp> In-Reply-To: <4460DC4A.7070106@abtime.de> References: <44506B8B.4090605@se.hiroshima-u.ac.jp> <4460DC4A.7070106@abtime.de>
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Andre Boehm wrote: > I tried if_nfe on my ASUS A8N-E with nForce4 chipset. > FreeBSD-6.1-RELEASE/amd64, because of problems with if_nve. > At first, everything seems to look fine from looking at dmesg and > ifconfig, but then no traffic seems to come in or goes out. > > When I switched back by unloading if_nfe and loading if_nve, starting > /etc/netstart, I received an email notice by arpwatch (on my office > router) that the MAC address of my NIC had changed, showing the digits > in reverse order. > > When again switching the kernel module, ifconfig shows sometimes the old > MAC address, sometimes reversed. With both modules, nfe and nve, the MAC > adress gets changed, or maybe nve keeps the changed address and nfe > changes its back again and so on. This is a known issue of nForce network adapters. I resolved it with version 20060510. Thanks --- S. Tagashira
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