This article describes the ‘kernel if_pfe Error 9 (No IFL) on IF command‘ log message.
The following log messages were seen:
Nov 11 10:40:15 PEP-VDC-US103 /kernel: if_pfe: Error 8 (No IFD) on IF command 56 (Ether get info) Nov 11 10:40:15 PEP-VDC-US103 /kernel: if_pfe: Error 8 (No IFD) on IF command 5 (IFD stats) Nov 11 10:41:15 PEP-VDC-US103 /kernel: if_pfe: Error 8 (No IFD) on IF command 117 (IFD queue stats) Nov 11 10:41:25 PEP-VDC-US103 /kernel: if_pfe: Error 9 (No IFL) on IF command 25 (IFL stats)
The error messages indicate that there is a discrepancy between the Kernel and the PFE. It is triggered when the following command is issued:
show interfaces statistics
These messages do not affect services and can be stopped by rebooting the SRX.