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From: Berend De Schouwer <berend.de.schouwer@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: tg3 pxe weirdness
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2017 14:56:23 +0200
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On Fri, 2017-09-22 at 11:51 +0530, Siva Reddy Kallam wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 7:53 PM, Berend De Schouwer
> <berend.de.schouwer@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I've got a machine with a Broadcom bcm5762c, using the tg3 driver,
> > that
> > fails to receive network packets under some very specific
> > conditions.
> > 
> > 
> > Berend
> 
> Can you please share below details?
> 1) Model and Manufacturer of the system
> 2) Linux distro/kernel used?

4.13.3 mainline locks up, but network dumps confirm it gets further. 
The second DHCP query completes, and the first NFS mount completes.

I have to rely on network dumps since on PXE and SATA boot it breaks
VGA output, so I can't see what it's doing, or why it stops.