James B. Byrne wrote:
Having replaced the suspect card and rebooted the host I see these messages in /var/log/messages repeated over and over:
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Aug 15 07:20:13 vhost01 kernel: r8169 0000:01:00.0: eth1: RTL8168d/8111d at 0xffffc9001258c000, 00:0a:cd:1d:32:e7, XID 081000c0 IRQ 30 Aug 15 07:20:13 vhost01 kernel: r8169 0000:01:00.0: eth1: jumbo features [frames: 9200 bytes, tx checksumming: ko] Aug 15 07:20:14 vhost01 kernel: r8169 0000:01:00.0: eth1: invalid firwmare Aug 15 07:20:14 vhost01 kernel: r8169 0000:01:00.0: eth1: unable to load firmware patch rtl_nic/rtl8168d-1.fw (-22)
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So, what is going on? This host is the first one of two nearly identically configured machines. The second host does not report or evidence any problem with its eth1.
My eyes uncrossed, and I saw, buried in there, the firstlink, above, and the last. You might want to see if a) the 8168d firmware patch will work on that card; b) vhost - it's a virtual host? perhaps it's trying to load the firmware patch to the real NIC, and as a guest VM, it doesn't have rights?
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