netdev - Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 12877] New: tg3: eth0 transit timed out, resetting -> dead NIC

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Message-ID: <20090319180644.GA30702@lxbsc01>
Date:	Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:06:44 +0100
From:	Bernhard Schmidt <berni@...kenwald.de>
To:	Matt Carlson <mcarlson@...adcom.com>
Cc:	Michael Chan <mchan@...adcom.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"bugme-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org" <bugme-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 12877] New: tg3: eth0 transit timed out,
	resetting -> dead NIC

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 09:58:42AM -0700, Matt Carlson wrote:

Hello Matt,

> Hi Bernhard.  I talked to Michael about this and we'd like you to try
> two things.
> 
> 1) Can you disable iLo2 and see if you can still reproduce the problem?

That will take a few days, I'll ask the on-site guys to check whether we
have an external IP-KVM available. 

Would switching the uplink connection to eth1 (and not use eth0 in
Linux) give some more clue as well?

> 2) Can you apply the following patch to get more information on when
>    MMIO gets disabled?

Applied, I'll send you the information as soon as it happens again
(which seems to be happening rather often the last couple of days).

Bernhard
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