Problem Kernel: 2.6.39.3 - ethernet e1000 dropping bogus packets ifconfig bond0
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Kernel version 2.6.39.3
ifconfig is reporting thousands of dropped packets on a bonded ethernet connection.
This does not happen on earlier linux kernels such as 2.6.32
ethernet driver is intel e1000
Gnu C 4.4.3 Gnu make 3.81 binutils 2.20.1 util-linux 2.17.2 mount support module-init-tools 3.11.1 e2fsprogs 1.41.11 PPP 2.4.5 Linux C Library 2.11.1 Dynamic linker (ldd) 2.11.1 Procps 3.2.8 Net-tools 1.60 Kbd 1.15 Sh-utils 7.4 wireless-tools 30 Modules Loaded vboxnetadp vboxnetflt vboxdrv bonding joydev w83627ehf hwmon_vid coretemp intel_agp lp intel_gtt parport usbhid hid psmouse serio_raw ses enclosure ahci e1000e libahci
These drops seem to occur when there is little traffic. If I do a tcpdump -i bond0 no packets are reported dropped in ifconfig nor in tcpipdump. So it seems to be bogus dropped packets reported by ifconfig.
Thank you for your time.