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Rahul...
Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 6:44 am
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Jerry Peters <jerry at (no spam) example.invalid> wrote in news:ha5u6s$eue$1
at (no spam) news.eternal-september.org:

Quote:
You failed to mention what kernel and device you're using.
There's a known kernel bug like this for the e1000 driver setting
large MTU's.



Sorry! Here's more info:

echo `uname -r`
2.6.18-92.el5

bond0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr [munged]
inet addr:10.0.0.100 Bcast:10.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: [munged]/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MASTER MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:6119439311 errors:0 dropped:30212 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:5124928889 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:5507970304794 (5.0 TiB) TX bytes:5356879814519 (4.8
TiB)

Any other device info that could help?


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Rahul
 
Marcel Bruinsma...
Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 10:26 pm
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Am Samstag, 3. Oktober 2009 18:44, Rahul a écrit :

Quote:
Jerry Peters <jerry at (no spam) example.invalid> wrote

You failed to mention what kernel and device you're using.
There's a known kernel bug like this for the e1000 driver
setting large MTU's.

echo `uname -r`
2.6.18-92.el5

'hwinfo --netcard' shows the driver.

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