Kylog

Weird but true. When I down/up-load some torrents (esp w/ many peers?), my 2.6.17 (FC5) Broadcom tg3 driver goes belly up. Here’s a thread about the problem:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=476368

FMI, on FC5 the best place to address this was to add

ethtool -K eth0 tso off

as the penultimate line of /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-eth, just before the final “exec” line.

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