[CentOS] my notes on bond, bridge, network, kvm, host and virtual so far
Gordon Messmer
yinyang at eburg.com
Mon Feb 13 22:58:18 UTC 2012
On 02/07/2012 07:26 PM, Devin Reade wrote:
> I had a lot of problems with the network stack on VMs, both under
> VMWare ESXi and Xen where the network would just go numb. After a
> lot of splunking I determined that it seemed to be related to
> faulty TCP segment offload.
Yeah, wow. You just jogged my memory. Intel 82573(V/L/E) ethernet
adapters had a serious bug that would cause TX hangs:
http://downloadmirror.intel.com/9180/eng/README.txt
"82573(V/L/E) TX Unit Hang Messages"
Bob, what model cards did you have in your server?
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