Description

This article describes the ‘kernel if_pfe Error 9 (No IFL) on IF command‘ log message.

Symptoms

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)

Solution


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.