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When we first got our new Dell PowerEdge development box the Broadcom NetXtreme II would occasionally report Error mapping mbuf into TX chain followed by the NIC no longer responding to ethernet. If you’ve got a new Dell, here’s how to update if_bce on FreeBSD 6 to fix the error.