From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
To: sofar@foo-projects.org
Cc: davej@redhat.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: E1000 stopped transmitting in rc3.
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 00:14:40 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060428.001440.33235399.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <445175D4.8010209@foo-projects.org>
From: Auke Kok <sofar@foo-projects.org>
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 18:54:28 -0700
> Dave Jones wrote:
> > With 2.6.17-rc3, my E1000 won't get a dhcp lease.
> > Looking at tcpdump and ifconfig output, it's easy to see why.
> > It's recieving packets, but the packets transmitted field
> > of ifconfig never increases.
> >
> > The last version I have built that worked ok was 2.6.17rc2-git3
>
> *puzzled*
>
> the only patch between 2.6.17rc2 and 2.6.17rc3 contains an rx-path patch, but
> nothing that affects tx. All the other patches sent earlier are queued for
> 2.6.18 so they don't apply.
If the rx path is corrupting the packets or providing bad
checksums, there will be nothing to transmit back.
So RX changes could explain the behavior.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-28 7:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-28 0:13 E1000 stopped transmitting in rc3 Dave Jones
2006-04-28 1:54 ` Auke Kok
2006-04-28 7:14 ` David S. Miller [this message]
[not found] ` <39fa70c7844cbb7240b98446e0940de7@localhost>
2006-04-29 6:46 ` Jim McCullough
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