Re: [Xen-devel] Network interface problem

[Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> That is a smart policy. I am sorry I tried to convince you to trust me. :) It 
> seems that tg3 issue really isn't related to Xen. It really doesn't work 
> under vanilla 2.4.24 with:
> 
> tg3.c:v2.3 (November 5, 2003)
> tg3: Could not obtain valid ethernet address, aborting.
> 
> While under 2.4.24-grsec it does:
> 
> tg3.c:v2.3 (November 5, 2003)
> eth0: Tigon3 [partno(BCM95702A20) rev 1002 PHY(5703)] (PCI:33MHz:32-bit) 
> 10/100/1000BaseT Ethernet 00:08:02:f7:c1:fa
> tg3: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex.
> tg3: eth0: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX.
> 
> That is really strange and I will post it to LKML and grsec MLs. Complete 
> kernel logs differ only in kernel memory usage and cpu speed calculation.
> 
> So it seems that I have never tried 2.4.24 vanilla before, only thought that 
> I 
> did. :)

It may be that their kernel has a more up-to-date tg3 driver (i.e.,
newer than version v2.3 committed on Nov 5, 2003).

 -- Keir


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