Strange networking problem on SPARC64

[Pyun YongHyeon]

On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 07:04:44PM +0800, Xin LI wrote:
 > Hi, folks,
 > 
 > My friend at Nankai University has a problem with Networking subsystem on
 > FreeBSD/SPARC64. With a heavy FTP load, ipkterr raises rapidly.
 > 
 > As I don't have sparc64 based hardware at hand, I send this mail on behalf
 > of him with a hope that someone can give him some hints to figure out what
 > is happening. Please fell free if I have missed some information and I will
 > forward these to him.
 > 
 > Hope we have provided useful information :-) fell free to ask us for more if
 > necessary.
 > 
 > Upgrading to -CURRENT does not solved the problem. After some experiences
 > we believe that this is not due to a networking hardware/device error. Same
 > hardware works well under other operating system.
 > 
 > Here comes some detailed information:
 > 
...
 > hme0: <Sun HME 10/100 Ethernet> mem 0x8000-0xffff at device 1.1 on pci0
 > hme0: Ethernet address: 08:00:20:e6:8a:f0
 > miibus0: <MII bus> on hme0
 > nsphy0: <DP83840 10/100 media interface> on miibus0
            ^^^^^^^
 > nsphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
...
 > /var: superblock summary recomputed
 > hme0: invalid packet size 8422; dropping
 > hme0: invalid packet size 7; dropping
 > hme0: invalid packet size 7; dropping
 > hme0: invalid packet size 7; dropping
 > hme0: invalid packet size 7; dropping
         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
See the commit log(if_hme.c rev 1.27) of marius.
Or see
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=freebsd-sparc64&m=108942881831209&w=2

Regards,
Pyun YongHyeon
-- 
Pyun YongHyeon <http://www.kr.freebsd.org/~yongari>