Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
On Fri, 14 Dec 2007, Ben Clewett wrote: > Ben identified the problem as due to the TOE protocol on his DELL > network card. Our HP network cards (NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-SX) > use the same Broadcom chipset, but unlike the DELL card, the HP card > provides no mechanism to disable TOE. Or at least no published > mechanism in the BIOS or available to Linux, and no jumpers on the PCB. Unless there has been a volte face by the kernel developers, I was under the impression that ToE functionality is not supported in any mainstream Linux kernel. This suggests that ToE is not being used on your NIC. If 'disabling' ToE by a jumper has an effect then that points to a bug in the driver. Have you tried a recent driver/kernel ? Can you replicate the problem with something like netperf ? -- John P.