13 Feb
2012
13 Feb
'12
11:58 p.m.
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?