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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: E1000 stopped transmitting in rc3.
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 00:14:40 -0700 (PDT)
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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.