Bug#681089: Broadcom tg3 3.122n no improvement

[Berni Elbourn <berni421@gmail.com>]

Just to confirm again no real improvement after installing the latest software from the broadcom site...

$ sudo ethtool -i eth0
driver: tg3
version: 3.122n
firmware-version: 5722-v3.07, ASFIPMI v6.02
bus-info: 0000:11:00.0

I note the firmware version has not changed. And there are dropped packets...

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:21:5a:d3:d0:0c
          inet addr:192.168.2.10  Bcast:192.168.2.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::221:5aff:fed3:d00c/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:1240500 errors:0 dropped:34 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1913472 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:116775980 (111.3 MiB)  TX bytes:2408650428 (2.2 GiB)
          Interrupt:18

This morning the link became unresponsive again, needing an ifdown/up.

I now run this cronjob:

* * * * * ping router-office -c 1 -w 10 >> /dev/null || (ifconfig eth0; ifdown eth0; ifup eth0)

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