Package: linux-latest Severity: important Tags: upstream Hi!
I have wheezy installed on several servers wich have a BCM5708 based NIC, which uses the bnx2 driver and I'm seeing a lot of errors on the network RX packets, this happens wether the machine runs current 3.2 stable kernel or 3.12 unstable one, and with firmware-bnx2 coming from stable and unstable. Searching on google didn't show any solution on this, but I found a couple of discussions showing the same kind of errors: http://slashzeroconf.wordpress.com/2008/04/17/broadcom-netxtreme-ii-bcm5708-bnx2-ip-checksum-error/ http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/Networking/bnx2-ip-checksum-error/td-p/4119430 These are posts from 2008, however I'm still seeing this right now with current kernels and firmware. I've tried to run these commands: ethtool -K eth0 rx off ethtool -K eth0 tx off ethtool -K eth0 tso off but that didn't make any change on the behaviour. For my tests I'm running a ping which is loosing packets ranging from 12% to 60% (I suppose that this depends on how busy the NIC is). On the setups I did right now I'm using VLAN tagging, I don't know if that makes any difference, I'll try to run more tests with and without this. The systems run Debian 7.3 and the kernels I tried were: linux-image-3.11-2-amd64 3.11.8-1 linux-image-3.12-1-amd64 3.12.8-1 linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64 3.2.51-1 Don't know what else to add, if you feel I'm missing something just let me know. I removed the system information at the end as I'm not writing from the servers having the problem. Regards. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
