On Mon, 9 Sep 2013 03:52:25 +0000
"Ronciak, John" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Just to you and e1000-devel
>
> These types of link partner problems do come up. Most times there is nothing
> that the end-point system can do about it as the actual problem is on the
> router/switch side of things. The way end-points get around things like this
> is start the whole link process again which it looks the driver is doing. So
> other than it taking a short amount of time to re-establish link there are no
> side effects doing this. That's all that happens correct? If you were able
> to plug the end-point system into another router/switch port from another
> manufacturer or back-to-back to another system you probably won't see the
> problem.
>
> Btw, the cheaper the router/switch the more likely you'll run into things
> like this. It's all about the quality and validation that goes into the HW.
> If the manufacturer doesn't spend the time and money to do it the customers
> see issues like this.
>
> Hope this helps (at least a little). Sorry we can't be more help for things
> like this.
Hi John, thanks for answering!
I understand what you mean, but isn't strange that it only
happens with e1000e ? I always used Realtek before and never had this
problem... maybe Realtek or Realtek driver is more tolerant to this?
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