Jack, How do I tell whether my motherboards are made by 'specific manufacturer' and whether NICs there are affected? Broadcasting packet of death is not a very good method in production environment.
EEPROM dump on my 82574L NICs on Supermicro X9SAE-V motherboard do match the 'bad' EEPROM mentioned in the http://www.kriskinc.com/intel-pod --Artem On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 10:16 AM, Jack Vogel <jfvo...@gmail.com> wrote: > For those that may have run across the story on Slashdot about this NIC, > here is our statement: > > Recently there were a few stories published, based on a blog post by an > end-user, suggesting specific network packets may cause the Intel® 82574L > Gigabit Ethernet Controller to become unresponsive until corrected by a > full platform power cycle. > > Intel was made aware of this issue in September 2012 by the blogs author. > Intel worked with the author as well as the original motherboard > manufacturer to investigate and determine root cause. Intel root caused the > issue to the specific vendor’s mother board design where an incorrect > EEPROM image was programmed during manufacturing. We communicated the > findings and recommended corrections to the motherboard manufacturer. > > It is Intel’s belief that this is an implementation issue isolated to a > specific manufacturer, not a design problem with the Intel 82574L Gigabit > Ethernet controller. Intel has not observed this issue with any > implementations which follow Intel’s published design guidelines. Intel > recommends contacting your motherboard manufacturer if you have continued > concerns or questions whether your products are impacted. > Here is the link: > > http://communities.intel.com/community/wired/blog/2013/02/07/intel-82574l-gigabit-ethernet-controller-statement > > Any questions or concerns may be sent to me. > > Cheers, > > Jack > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-sta...@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
