Bug#506419: high volumes of traffic kill forcedeth chip

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

martin f krafft wrote:

> I still have the hardware, but it's on a production machine. It is
> onboard and I added a separate NIC, so it's unused, but I cannot
> really run kernel-level experiments.
>
> However, the machine has KVM, and as soon as KVM supports PCI
> passthrough, that might be useful. There are two cards connected to
> each other (I expected debugging), and with two KVM instances, this
> could be interesting.

Thanks for the update; I'm happy to wait.  I'm leaving the bug tagged
moreinfo for now, as in "wouldn't it be nice if someone with similar
hardware could try to reproduce this".

Regards,
Jonathan