The other day, I disconnected the ethernet cable from my gateway to reroute the cable. Then, perhaps coincidentally, I started seeing these entries:
Jul 2 15:19:57 bast kernel: fxp0: discard frame w/o leading ethernet header (len 4294967294 pkt len 4294967294) Jul 2 15:28:01 bast kernel: fxp0: discard frame w/o leading ethernet header (len 4294967294 pkt len 4294967294) Jul 2 15:28:02 bast kernel: fxp0: discard frame w/o leading ethernet header (len 4294967294 pkt len 4294967294) Jul 2 15:39:58 bast kernel: fxp0: discard frame w/o leading ethernet header (len 4294967294 pkt len 4294967294)
I started looking around, and found a few references. The best of which seems to be: bounce the NIC…
So, here I go:
[dan@bast:~] $ sudo ifconfig fxp0 down && sudo ifconfig fxp0 up [dan@bast:~] $
Yes, I did that remotely.
Here’s what /var/log/messages had:
Jul 2 17:28:14 bast kernel: fxp0: link state changed to DOWN Jul 2 17:28:16 bast kernel: fxp0: link state changed to UP Jul 2 17:28:19 bast dhclient: New IP Address (fxp0): 23.11.10.134 Jul 2 17:28:19 bast kernel: fxp0: link state changed to DOWN Jul 2 17:28:19 bast dhclient: New Subnet Mask (fxp0): 255.255.255.0 Jul 2 17:28:19 bast dhclient: New Broadcast Address (fxp0): 23.11.10.255 Jul 2 17:28:19 bast dhclient: New Routers (fxp0): 23.11.10.1 Jul 2 17:28:21 bast kernel: fxp0: link state changed to UP
If you see no followups to this post, you know it worked.
7:21 AM – 3 July 2013
No, that wasn’t it:
Jul 3 03:04:56 bast kernel: fxp0: discard frame w/o leading ethernet header (len 4294967294 pkt len 4294967294) Jul 3 03:04:56 bast kernel: fxp0: discard frame w/o leading ethernet header (len 4294967294 pkt len 4294967294)
13:39 PM – 13 July 2013
I rebooted stopped the messages.
