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