Re: re Problems with dhclient

On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 04:47:18PM +0200, sledgehammer_at_revier.net wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I'm having the same problems here in FreeBSD 7.0 current....wired
> connection only going to a Draytek Vigor 2600 DSL router...I just tried to
> transfer a couple of GB over my LAN via SSH from my PC running FreeBSD 7.0
> to my Mac Mini running Mac OS X 10.4.2 and the connection got lost all of
> a sudden...FreeBSD wasn't able to connect to the internet either for a
> while while the Mac had no such problems..here's the part from the log for
> my SSH transfer:
> 
> Jul 16 16:28:43 lepus kernel: rl0: discard oversize frame (ether type ffff
> flags 3 len 5628 > max 1514)
> 
> When I run a dmesg I get this:
> 
> I had never seen that in 5.4
> 
> $ dmesg | grep rl
> rl0: <RealTek 8139 10/100BaseTX> port 0x9800-0x98ff mem
> 0xd7eff800-0xd7eff8ff irq 17 at device 9.0 on pci1
> miibus0: <MII bus> on rl0
> rlphy0: <RealTek internal media interface> on miibus0
> rlphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
> rl0: Ethernet address: 00:11:d8:05:10:ae
> rl0: discard oversize frame (ether type ffff flags 3 len 5628 > max 1514)
> rl0: discard oversize frame (ether type f427 flags 3 len 11428 > max 1514)
> rl0: discard oversize frame (ether type e467 flags 3 len 57295 > max 1514)
> rl0: discard oversize frame (ether type 80a flags 3 len 20975 > max 1514)
> 
> $ uname -psr
> FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT i386

It's hightly unlikely this has anything to do with dhclient.  It
appears your nic or the driver is totally foobar.  You're getting major
undeteted packet corruption which is generally a bad sign and way below
the level of dhclient.

-- Brooks

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