Yes it is reproducible (though unfortunately not very reliable) on multiple systems, with three types of hardware in them. First type has two interfaces with ethernet pro 100 cards and one 82540EM based Second type has three interfaces all 82546GB based Third type with three 82571EB interfaces
1. yes 2. yes 3. yes (it is always after a reboot, card never enters this state during runtime - as far as we have seen) On Thu 22/05/08 2:01 AM , "Tantilov, Emil S" sent: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > Hello, > > > This may sound doubtful, but this is not happening on > one box, or > > only in one network environment, and is reproducible > > > though not really reliable, but 5-6 reboots bring NIC > into this state > > > OK - so from your description it seems that the issue is reproducible on > > multiple (different?) systems - is this correct? > > > > If we can get some more details about the failure it will at least point > > to whether this is system or NIC specific. Please reply with yes or no: > > > > 1. Are you seeing the issue on multiple systems (preferably not of the > > same type).? > > > > 2. Are you seeing this with different NICs or just the one you reported > > in the initial email? > > > > 3. Can you provide simple steps to reproduce? You mentioned reboots - is > > it fair to say that you see the issue after several reboots? > > > > > when we first get rx_no_buffer_count in -S then after > some > > point it stops and starts counting rx_missed packets. > This has been > > seen on 8 boxes so far, probably more, but only 8 > reported. And the > > problem started to show itself after update from 7.0.33 > to 7.6.15.5. > > > 7.0.33 to 7.6.15.5 is a big leap, if you can maybe narrow the gap a bit > > more by testing versions in betweeen that would certainly help. > > > > Thanks, > > Emil > > > > ---- Msg sent via email.ru ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ E1000-devel mailing list E1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/e1000-devel
