On Sun, Jun 24, 2007 at 11:50:28AM -0700, patrick keshishian wrote: > Hi, > > I've been noticing some strange problems with the built-in nfe0 > interface on my desktop. Actually I've seen it on two such > computers, but the description below is for my current desktop PC. > > The PC is running `cvs up -dP -rOPENBSD_4_1' built. I'm including > netstat, ifconfig output[1] and dmesg below[2]. > > I've noticed that once in a while the nfe0 interface will stop > sending and receiving data. At this point I can not make it work > again. The only solution I have is to reboot the box. I have > installed a dc0 card in the box since. The problem seemed > intermittent and not reliably reproducible. But I think I found > a way to reproduce this problem on demand (at least for the time > being). I have an ssh session to another box, on which I run > '/usr/bin/nm somelib.so'. After a page or two of output the > terminal "hangs". At this point nfe0 becomes unresponsive. >
i used to see these hangs fairly often when doing a "cvs up" in /usr/src. for some reason i have not seen them for an age. i am unable to hang this box using your method, for example. nfe(4) is not great. i think CAVEATS says it all. "buyer beware" ;( jmc
