<div>My understsanding is that there's a long-standing FIFO logic bug in this chip, and while the Linux drivers partially mitigate the problem,</div>
<div> there are residual packet-drop issues.</div>
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<div>on Apr 24, 2014, <b>Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX</b> <caf@omen.com> wrote:</div>
<blockquote class="email_quote" style="border-left: 2px solid #267fdb; margin: 0 0 0 1.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I did a Google on this chip, which is part of some<br />of the motherboards I have. Apparently this chip<br />has some hardware bugs in it.<br /><br />Several days ago I disabled this port in the BIOS.<br />The local net is now served with a Realtek chip<br />on the motherboard. A Realtek chip on a cheap<br />PCIEX board talks to the Internet.<br /><br />My server has been relatively stable since I made<br />that change.<br /><br />Can the Intel chip ever be tamed in Linux?<br /><br />-- <br /> Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX <a class="parsedEmail" href="mailto:caf@omen.com" target="_blank">caf@omen.com</a> <a class="parsedLink" href="http://www.omen.com" target="_blank">www.omen.com</a><br />Developer of Industrial ZMODEM(Tm) for Embedded Applications<br /> Omen Technology Inc "The High Reliability Software"<br />10255 NW Old Cornelius Pass Portland OR 97231 503-614-0430<br /><br />-- <br />test mailing list<br /><a class="parsedEmail" href="mailto:test@lists.fedoraproject.org" target="_blank">test@lists.fedoraproject.org</a><br />To unsubscribe:<br /><a class="parsedLink" href="https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test" target="_blank">https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test</a></blockquote>
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