[AusNOG] NIC Packets of death

[Daniel O'Connor]

On 09/02/2013, at 20:56, Edwin Groothuis <edwin at mavetju.org> wrote:

> On 7/02/13 10:37 , Heinz N wrote:
>> 
>> Seems that certain packets can completely bring down certain Intel chipset network controllers.
>> 
>> http://blog.krisk.org/2013/02/packets-of-death.html
>> 
> 
> http://communities.intel.com/community/wired/blog/2013/02/07/intel-82574l-gigabit-ethernet-controller-statement
> 
> Intel blames it on a faulty EEPROM, but they don't say which mother board manufacturer.


They don't provide any tools or instructions for testing the problem either.

Hopeless :-/

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