I was able to do some bisection using Ubuntu-packaged kernels. The kernel from Precise (3.2.0-74.109) works (on a Trusty system). On 3.5.0-51-generic (3.5.0-51.76) from Quantal, I get a different kind of brokenness. I don't get a stack dump, but I get this kernel message printed: skbuff: bond0.7: received packets cannot be forwarded while LRO is enabled The kernels from Raring (3.8.0-35.50) and Saucy (3.11.0-26.45) are broken in the same way as Trusty. Does that skbuff error message provide any clue? If not, it seems that I'll have to bisect from working-on-3.2 to broken-on-3.5, then revert that offending commit in each test as I bisect again from 3.5 to 3.8? -- Richard