Control: tag -1 moreinfo On Wed, 2014-01-29 at 13:52 +0100, Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote: > 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.
How and where are you detecting this? > 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). [...] Have you tried replacing the cable? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. - Albert Einstein
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