RE: Interesting debugging: Specific packets cause some Intel gigabit ethernet controllers to reset

[Eric Wieling <EWieling () nyigc com>]

I have come to believe the Intel 82574L is the worst Ethernet chip in the universe.    We had horrible issues with it 
(random bursts of dropped packets showing in ifconfig).  We ended up simply putting a card based on a different chip 
into our systems and all our issues went away.

-----Original Message-----
From: Blake Dunlap [mailto:ikiris () gmail com] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2013 3:40 PM
To: Kristian Kielhofner
Cc: nanog () nanog org
Subject: Re: Interesting debugging: Specific packets cause some Intel gigabit 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>wrote:

> Over the year I've read some interesting (horrifying?) tales of 
> 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