Re: [Xen-users] Urgent Network problem! Virtual network stops working after a few minutes/hours

[Martin Fernau <m.fernau@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> ifconfig or netstat -i isn't showing any dropped packets or RX-ERR or
> TX-ERR on the physical NIC I really doubt it's the hardware that's the
> problem.
I only had some "dropped"-Packets.

Well - now my kernel-2.6.18 is ready to use and this time I'm using the 
original NIC driver from the broadcom side itself -> 1.8.2b_1.46.12
referring to the changelog there were some errors in old drivers

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bnx2 v1.8.1f, cnic v1.6.1 (Nov 5, 2008)
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   Fixes
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   1. Problem: All TSO packets corrupted on 5706/5708.

      Cause: Firmware bug zeroing the wrong field in IP header.

      Change: Updated to latest 4.6.11 5706/5708 firmware and 4.6.12 5709
              Firmware.

      Impact: 5706/5708/5709.
[...]
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*crossing fingers*

-
Martin

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