Re: possible bug: VM drops incoming network packets (tap)

[Jim Paris <jim-XrPbb/hENzg@public.gmane.org>]

Joris wrote:
> Both changing the nic (to rtl8139) and rebooting the host solved the
> issue for me.
> My VM's have now survived over 12 hours of intense activity without a glitch.
> 
> To be clear: soly changing the nic without rebooting the host worked;
> after rebooting the host the default nic works again.

I rebooted the host (and upgraded to 2.6.23.1), but the default
ne2k-pci nic still had the same problems.  I switched my guests all to
rtl8139 and they seem to be working much better.

Seems that ne2k-pci has had some bugs introduced between kvm-36 and kvm-46.

-jim

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