2011/8/5 Peter Kjellström <cap at nsc.liu.se>: > 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. > > /Peter Bad news. Starting with EL5.7, the kernel does not have individual patches any more just like EL6. So, removing a patch is not trivial. You'd have to add a patch that reverts the change. It's a pain but doable... Akemi