From: Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 08:11:05 +1100
> On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 04:01:24PM -0500, Joe Korty wrote: > > Will do in a bit, but as everything works fine with 2.6.13-rc1-git7 and > > earlier > > kernels, I don't expect this will be the problem. > > It's probably the driver. However, since rc1-git7 -> rc2 may not have > actually introduced the problem but merely triggered it, it could still > be anything. The e1000 does have hardware bugs with TSO and SG, which the e1000 driver should have the necessary workarounds for. I am confident that it's not the change being discussed, but rather an existing problem with the e1000 hardware and/or driver. The chip simply wedges and stops sending any packets at all, not even pings, you can't blame the Linux stack on that :-) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
