There hasn't been a reply to my question in the last comment within months, so I assume nobody cares about this anymore. So I'm closing this ticket now...
** Changed in: qemu Status: Incomplete => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/808588 Title: Netperf tests cause i82551 network down Status in QEMU: Fix Released Bug description: 1. boot up a guest with 82551 nic # qemu-kvm -net nic,model=i82551 ... 2. launch netperf server in the guest 3.on the host for b in 32 64 128 256 512 1024 1460 2048 4096 8192 9000 16384 32768 65495 65507 do ./netperf -t TCP_STREAM -f m -H <guest ip> -P 0 -l 10 -- -m $b done for b in 32 64 128 256 512 1024 1460 2048 4096 8192 9000 16384 32768 65495 65507 do ./netperf -t UDP_STREAM -f m -H <guest ip> -P 0 -l 10 -- -m $b done Result: Guest network becomes down netperf client output: ./netperf -t TCP_STREAM -f m -H 10.66.9.39 -P 0 -l 10 -- -m 32 87380 16384 32 10.97 19.61 ./netperf -t TCP_STREAM -f m -H 10.66.9.39 -P 0 -l 10 -- -m 64 87380 16384 64 11.55 79.68 ./netperf -t TCP_STREAM -f m -H 10.66.9.39 -P 0 -l 10 -- -m 128 87380 16384 128 10.16 14.20 ./netperf -t TCP_STREAM -f m -H 10.66.9.39 -P 0 -l 10 -- -m 256 87380 16384 256 11.17 12.85 ./netperf -t TCP_STREAM -f m -H 10.66.9.39 -P 0 -l 10 -- -m 512 87380 16384 512 10.01 16.38 ./netperf -t TCP_STREAM -f m -H 10.66.9.39 -P 0 -l 10 -- -m 1024 Interrupted system call netperf: remote error 4./netperf -t TCP_STREAM -f m -H 10.66.9.39 -P 0 -l 10 -- -m 1460 establish control: are you sure there is a netserver listening on 10.66.9.39 at port 12865? establish_control could not establish the control connection from 0.0.0.0 port 0 address family AF_UNSPEC to 10.66.9.39 port 12865 address family AF_UNSPEC ./netperf -t TCP_STREAM -f m -H 10.66.9.39 -P 0 -l 10 -- -m 2048 qemu debug message: .... EE100 nic_receive command 0x0000, link 0x3d3e6822, addr 0xffffffff, size 1518 EE100 nic_can_receive 0x29a0180 EE100 nic_receive 0x29a0180 received broadcast, len=60 EE100 nic_receive Receive buffer (0 bytes) too small for data (60 bytes); data truncated EE100 nic_receive command 0x8000, link 0x37b32022, addr 0xffffffff, size 0 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ EE100 nic_receive receive: Running out of frames ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ EE100 eepro100_write1 addr=Command/Status+1 val=0x20 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/808588/+subscriptions