From: "Michael Chan" <mchan@broadcom.com>
To: "Andi Kleen" <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: "Jamie webb" <j@jwebb.sygneca.com>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: tg3 spitting out uninitialized memory
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 13:39:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1176410380.11425.5.camel@dell> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <p73tzvl7ilg.fsf@bingen.suse.de>
On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 16:50 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Jamie webb <j@jwebb.sygneca.com> writes:
>
> > Hi there
> >
> > I have a Dell PE860 with built-in BCM5721, which is reported as
> > working fine with the tg3 driver, however I have been getting sporadic
> > data corruption, mostly evident as SSH MAC errors.
>
> FWIW i also saw this (data corruption with tg3) occasionally,
> but never repeatable or with a packet dump.
>
My suggestion is to try turning tx checksum off (ethtool -K eth0 tx off)
to see if it makes a difference. I'm not aware of checksum problem on
5721, but it is worth trying. See if the other end is reporting TCP
checksum errors also.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-12 19:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-11 21:49 PROBLEM: tg3 spitting out uninitialized memory Jamie webb
2007-04-12 14:50 ` Andi Kleen
2007-04-12 20:39 ` Michael Chan [this message]
2007-04-13 17:51 ` Jamie webb
2007-04-16 6:25 ` Michael Chan
2007-04-16 6:31 ` Andi Kleen
2007-04-16 6:43 ` Michael Chan
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