In reply to Christoph Willing <willing@itee.uq.edu.au> : > > On 27/10/2004, at 2:02 AM, Linda Winkler wrote: > > > where can I get more details on Intel chipset/driver issues and > > traffic loss? > > lw > > Linda, > > I don't know if the issue is real or not, rather just an idea I've had > and for which I'm looking for more evidence. We have some machines here > with different brand gigabit NICS which showed different multicast loss > patterns in the dast beacon display, even though they were on the same > subnet. Additional board swapping further supported the proposition > that something was amiss with the e1000 driver/chip. We have seen chipset level problems with e1000 cards. The problems we've seen are not the sort I would expect you to be seeing with beacon traffic (packet corruption when the card is run flat-out with jumbo frames when connected to certain devices). However, we found a fairly nasty-looking errata list for the chipset. I'll see if I can dig it up.... --eli
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