Re: Intel 82579V LAN chip

2014-04-24 Thread Marcus Leech
My understsanding is that there's a long-standing FIFO logic bug in this chip, and while the Linux drivers partially mitigate the problem,   there are residual packet-drop issues.       on Apr 24, 2014, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX wrote: I did a Google on this chip, which is part of someof the motherbo

Intel 82579V LAN chip

2014-04-24 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX
I did a Google on this chip, which is part of some of the motherboards I have. Apparently this chip has some hardware bugs in it. Several days ago I disabled this port in the BIOS. The local net is now served with a Realtek chip on the motherboard. A Realtek chip on a cheap PCIEX board talks to