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Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: Panic in ipt_do_table with 2.6.16.13-xen
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Matt Ayres wrote:
> 
> 
> James Morris wrote:
>> On Thu, 18 May 2006, Matt Ayres wrote:
>>
>>>> I'm trying to suggest eliminating this driver & possible interaction 
>>>> with
>>>> Xen network changes as a cause.  If you can find a different type of 
>>>> NIC to
>>>> plug in and use, or even try and change all of the params for the 
>>>> tg3 with
>>>> ethtool, it'll help.
>>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Thank you for the assistance. Which parameters do you suggest changing?
>>> TSO/flow control off?
>>
>> Yep, anything.
> 
> Ok, "ethtool -K eth0 rx off tx off sg off tso off" should have turned it 
>  all off.
> 

I think I confirmed the NIC is not the source of the problem.  A few of 
my servers have e100/tulip NIC's due to a bug with the chipset of the 
on-board TG3 cards firmware and TSO.  These servers that use the 
e100/tulip drivers also experience the ipt_do_table bug.

Thanks,
Matt