[CentOS] e1000 nic problem

Sun Jun 25 15:02:56 UTC 2006
Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 at duke.edu>

On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 at 2:49pm, Geert Batsleer wrote

> I've been experiencing occassional network time-outs with the Intel Gigabit
> nic's (e1000) in Poweredge systems.
>
> I'm not sure if it's a hard or software problem but it occurs on different
> systems with Centos 4.2 and 4.3 and was wondering if there' s a  workaround
> available like compiling an updated e1000 module  or something.

There are a *lot* of tunables in the e1000 module.  Look in 
/usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.6.9/Documentation/networking/e1000.txt for a 
list and descriptions.  I'd start there.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University