Bug#651629: sky2: interface silently fails to set MTU if interface is down

2011-12-10 Thread Aaron Opfer
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.32-38 Severity: normal When attempting to change the MTU of my eth0 interface, which is running the sky2 driver, it exhibits the following behavior: 1 ) If the interface is down, ifconfig returns no error message, but typing `ifconfig eth0` again shows the MTU ha

Bug#637122: general: Realtek RTL8111 with r8169 module causes kernel panic on large packets

2011-11-15 Thread Aaron Opfer
0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 03) Aaron Opfer -- From: "Ben Hutchings" Sent: Friday, September 09, 2011 7:58 AM To: Cc: <637...@bugs.debian.org> Subject:

Bug#637122: general: Realtek RTL8111 with r8169 module causes kernel panic on large packets

2011-08-08 Thread Aaron Opfer
Package: general Severity: normal The kernel panics when it receives a packet on an interface running the r8169 module that is of sufficient size. To reproduce, have another host on the interface with MTU of 9000 to send a ICMP ping packet of size 9000, and then the driver will cause a panic. I