[160496] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Interesting debugging: Specific packets cause some Intel
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Wieling)
Wed Feb 6 17:06:56 2013
From: Eric Wieling <EWieling@nyigc.com>
To: Blake Dunlap <ikiris@gmail.com>, Kristian Kielhofner <kris@kriskinc.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2013 17:06:39 -0500
In-Reply-To: <CAJvB4tm3ZtgQZWLhNNbQRebJkQL_rotaYN6hxfiOff74zPs0Vw@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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I have come to believe the Intel 82574L is the worst Ethernet chip in the u=
niverse. We had horrible issues with it (random bursts of dropped packet=
s showing in ifconfig). We ended up simply putting a card based on a diffe=
rent chip into our systems and all our issues went away.
-----Original Message-----
From: Blake Dunlap [mailto:ikiris@gmail.com]=20
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2013 3:40 PM
To: Kristian Kielhofner
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Interesting debugging: Specific packets cause some Intel gigab=
it ethernet controllers to reset
Wow, you just solved my issue with my firewall.
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 2:33 PM, Kristian Kielhofner <kris@kriskinc.com>wrot=
e:
> Over the year I've read some interesting (horrifying?) tales of=20
> debugging on NANOG. It seems I finally have my own to contribute:
>
> http://blog.krisk.org/2013/02/packets-of-death.html
>
> The strangest issue I've experienced, that's for sure.
>
> --
> Kristian Kielhofner
>
>
