Somewhat off-topic but be aware Amazon is moving towards using the
"Elastic Network Adapter":
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2016/06/introducing-elastic-network-adapter-ena-the-next-generation-network-interface-for-ec2-instances/
Limited instance type support so far but as they said b
We have multiple systems (and system types) experiencing a kernel
panic, when they upgrade to Debian 8. We tried the native Debian IGB
driver, as well as, IGB 5.3.5.3, with no difference in behavior. The
common element is that they are attached to our Portwell CAR-3000,
running Linux 2.6.26
