Just to confirm again no real improvement after installing the latest software from the broadcom site...
$ sudo ethtool -i eth0 driver: tg3 version: 3.122n firmware-version: 5722-v3.07, ASFIPMI v6.02 bus-info: 0000:11:00.0 I note the firmware version has not changed. And there are dropped packets... eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:21:5a:d3:d0:0c inet addr:192.168.2.10 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::221:5aff:fed3:d00c/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:1240500 errors:0 dropped:34 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:1913472 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:116775980 (111.3 MiB) TX bytes:2408650428 (2.2 GiB) Interrupt:18 This morning the link became unresponsive again, needing an ifdown/up. I now run this cronjob: * * * * * ping router-office -c 1 -w 10 >> /dev/null || (ifconfig eth0; ifdown eth0; ifup eth0) -- "Confidence is what you have before you understand a problem" - Woody Allen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org