Hi,

I'm having an issue with two different wandboard quad systems; one is
running F22, the other is running F23.  When the system is under high
network load, specifically high transmit load, after a while the network
just gives up.  Technically it's not VERY high load, only about 2MB/s,
but it's high transmit load -- high download load seems to be fine as
far as I can tell.  I know that "gives up" isn't a very technical term,
but I frankly don't know what else to call it.

* dmesg doesn't say anything about the link going down
* ifconfig shows the interface still has an IP address
* arp, however, seems to start failing (and my NFS server has an
  incomplete arp address)
* ping doesn't work to anywhere (regardless of the contents of the arp table)
* DNS doesn't work (obviously -- no packets are coming or going).

I can usually recover by doing:

  nmcli con down "Wired connection 1"
  nmcli con up "Wired connection 1"

(the 'up' results in the message "Error: Connection activation failed.")
After that I need to pull the ethernet plug, count to 5-10, and then
plug it in again.  Then I'll get the messages:

[30540.554006] fec 2188000.ethernet eth0: Link is Down         
[30553.558837] fec 2188000.ethernet eth0: Link is Up - 1Gbps/Full - flow contro

(sorry for the cut messages; minicom serial console doesn't wrap lines)

After I do this the system has network again.  However it's quite
frustrating that I have to go through all these hoops.  Note that just
pulling the network cable by itself does not seem sufficient to reset
the network.

Is this a hardware problem or a software problem (or a combination of
the two)?  I've had it happen on this one system three times today; I
can definitely reliably repeat it (although it does take a couple hours
until it dies).  It's also happened on another system, but I've not seen
it happen since I stopped pulling data from it.

Any suggestions?  I'd like to not have to go out and spend more money to
buy an Atom-based solution, even though it might be better for my use
case due to AES-NI.

Thanks,

-derek

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