From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: stephen mulcahy <smulcahy@gmail.com>
Subject: Bug#572201: forcedeth driver hangs under heavy load
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 13:39:34 +0100
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stephen mulcahy wrote:
> It doesn't - further testing over the weekend saw 6 of 45 machines drop 
> off the network with this problem. Nothing in dmesg or system logs. 
> Happy to run more tests if someone can advise on what should be run.

I also just tried using the 2.6.30-2-amd64 (Debian) forcedeth kernel 
module while running the 2.6.32-3-amd64 (Debian) kernel and experienced 
the same symptoms.

Not sure if thats any help.

-stephen