Bug#644906: [squeeze] e1000e: upstream workaround for packet drop on 82579LM at 100Mbps

[Holger Jeromin <jeromin@hitnet.rwth-aachen.de>]

Jonathan Nieder schrieb am 11.03.2012 20:36:

> Holger Jeromin wrote:
> > > The patch ("e1000e: workaround for packet drop on 82579 at 100Mbps")
> > > hit mainline in v3.1-rc4.  Are squeeze 2.6.32.y kernels affected?
> > As you can see in my smokeping there is still a paket loss in my
> > internal network:
> > http://www.katur.de/smokeping/smokeping.cgi?target=Local.Telefon
> > It would be nice, if you can fix the problem with a new kernel for
> > squeeze, since the paket loss is not nice for VoIP-Calls :-)
> Please test the attached patch, following instructions from [1].

ping -f 192.168.0.3
PING 192.168.0.3 (192.168.0.3) 56(84) bytes of data.
--- 192.168.0.3 ping statistics ---
21499 packets transmitted, 21498 received, 0% packet loss, time 14026ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.207/0.616/17.595/0.240 ms, pipe 2, ipg/ewma 
0.652/0.623 ms

The kernel from squeeze had around 2% packet loss...

The fix works very nice here. Thanks. I will keep the kernel until a new 
security update in stable forces me to update.

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best regards
Holger Jeromin

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