> I'll welcome a complete dmesg after you have recovered through > ifconfig down/up though.
_Nothing_ on dmesg. > No problem. One more question: have you enabled NAPI ? If not, you > should. Doesn't seem to make a difference. Here, with it on, after failing it: --- 192.168.99.100 ping statistics --- 1362 packets transmitted, 903 packets received, 33% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max = 0.1/35803.4/65264.8 ms Worse than I thought, to a machine on the same gigabit copper switch... ifconfig eth1: eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:4C:13:A9:56 inet addr:192.168.99.99 Bcast:192.168.99.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:528416 errors:252 dropped:620 overruns:0 frame:966 TX packets:243040 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 Interrupt:161 Base address:0xe000 ethtool eth1: Settings for eth1: Supported ports: [ TP ] Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 1000baseT/Full Supports auto-negotiation: Yes Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 1000baseT/Full Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes Speed: 1000Mb/s Duplex: Full Port: Twisted Pair PHYAD: 0 Transceiver: internal Auto-negotiation: on Supports Wake-on: pumbg Wake-on: g Current message level: 0x00000033 (51) Link detected: yes Note, without having thrown traffic through it, I have: PING 192.168.99.100 (192.168.99.100): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 192.168.99.100: icmp_seq=0 ttl=128 time=0.1 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.99.100: icmp_seq=1 ttl=128 time=0.1 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.99.100: icmp_seq=2 ttl=128 time=0.1 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.99.100: icmp_seq=3 ttl=128 time=0.1 ms --- 192.168.99.100 ping statistics --- 4 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max = 0.1/0.1/0.1 ms What next? -Tom - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html