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From: "Michael Chan" <mchan@broadcom.com>
Subject: Re: bnx2 cards intermittantly going offline
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 09:55:58 -0800
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On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 02:54 -0800, Mills, Tony wrote:
> Last night i setup a machine to monitor overnight and at 3:52 this
> morning it became unresponsive. 
> 

When it becomes unresponsive, please send some packets to the NIC (such
as ping) and monitor statistics with ethtool -S.  See if the packets are
being received or discarded.  Also, run tcpdump on the machine to see if
the packets are properly received by the stack.  Thanks.