FreeBSD 11.3: Chelsio t5nex encountered fatal error

[John Jasen]

We use FreeBSD on our firewalls, relying on Chelsio T5 and T6 series cards
for high performance networking.

Friday night, our backup firewall went offline -- apparently taking both
network cards out.

DMESG reported the following error:

            t5nex0: ! PL_PERR_CAUSE 0x19404 = 0x00000010, E 0x9fffe3ff, F
0xffffffff

            t5nex0:   ! [0x00000010] MPS

            t5nex0: * PL_INT_CAUSE 0x1940c = 0x00000052, E 0x9fffff7d, F
0x00000000

            t5nex0:   * [0x00000040] PL

            t5nex0:   * [0x00000010] MPS

            t5nex0:   - [0x00000002] I2CM

            t5nex0: ! PL_PL_INT_CAUSE 0x19430 = 0x00000050, E 0x00000010, F
0x00000010

            t5nex0:   ! [0x00000010] Fatal parity error

            t5nex0:   ? [0x00000040]

            t5nex0: ! MPS_RX_PERR_INT_CAUSE 0x11074 = 0x00008000, E
0x00ffffff, F 0x00ffffff

            t5nex0:   ! [0x00008000] MPS Rx parity error

            t5nex0: encountered fatal error, adapter stopped.


Is the card dying or dead, or something worse?


Thanks!