On 8/5/2011 9:46 AM, Peter Kjellström wrote:
Our X520 are still stable except for one recent problem, 2.6.18-238.9.1 -> 2.6.18-238.12.1 broke it quite bad. With 238.12.1 our servers start dropping all incomming packets after a while. Sanity can be (temporarily restored with a "ethtool --negotiate ethX").
We are currently running a kernel that excludes: linux-2.6-net-ixgbe-fix-for-82599-erratum-on-header-splitting.patch since that's what seems to break our setup.
Has the bug been reported upstream?