New: e1000e driver with 82566DM-2 controller doesn't strip crc from frames
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Quoted 34 lines · On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 01:50:49 -0800 (PST) [email protected] wrote:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9940
Summary: e1000e driver with 82566DM-2 controller doesn't strip
crc from frames
Product: Drivers
Version: 2.5
KernelVersion: 2.6.24
Platform: All
OS/Version: Linux
Tree: Mainline
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: P1
Component: Network
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]Latest working kernel version: n/a
Earliest failing kernel version: 2.6.24
Distribution: Gentoo 2007.0
Hardware Environment: HP Compaq dc7800p
Software Environment: n/a
Problem Description:
The e1000e driver doesn't strip the ethernet frame crc is used with the 82566DM-2 chip.
This will result, among other things, that bridging doesn't work together with this chip.
Reverting commit140a74802894e9db57e5cd77ccff77e590ece5f3fixes this issue but has performance implications.Steps to reproduce:
Send a ping and monitor the responce with tcpdump.