Bug#617635: Network connection drops under heavy load (tg3 driver)

[David Parker <dparker@utica.edu>]

----- Original Message -----
From: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Date: Sunday, January 15, 2012 2:32 pm
Subject: Re: Bug#617635: Network connection drops under heavy load (tg3 driver)
To: David Parker <dparker@utica.edu>, 617635@bugs.debian.org
Cc: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>

> Something like this should work:
> 
>         # echo 
> >>/etc/apt/apt.conf 'APT::Default-Release "squeeze";'
>         # echo 
> >>/etc/apt/sources.list 'deb http://cdn.debian.net/debian/ sid main'
>         # apt-get update
>         ...
>         # apt-get install -t 
> unstable linux-image-3.1.0-1-amd64
>         

Thanks, Ben.  I did a clean install of squeeze (6.0.3) with the 2.6.32-5-amd64 kernel and verified that the problem still exists.  I then followed your instructions and tested with the 3.2.0-1-amd64 kernel from sid, and this behavior appears to be fixed.

    - Dave