Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2013 20:45:26 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Parv <parv@pair.com> Cc: FreeBSD stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, "Pieper, Jeffrey E" <jeffrey.e.pieper@intel.com>, FreeBSD Net <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>, "Hearn, James R" <james.r.hearn@intel.com>, "Vogel, Jack" <jack.vogel@intel.com>, "Ronciak, John" <john.ronciak@intel.com>, Jack Vogel <jfvogel@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Intel 82574 issue reported on Slashdot Message-ID: <1D962264-6DF6-4192-8190-34E22AADE843@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20130209101219.GA2133@holstein.holy.cow> References: <CAFOYbc=kYHRBet_M_3-U_6JkBqos4tF1oMamYKXswsvRyG3cuw@mail.gmail.com> <A18965A6-8D17-4919-9947-FE43D250354F@gsoft.com.au> <20130209101219.GA2133@holstein.holy.cow>
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On 09/02/2013, at 20:42, Parv <parv@pair.com> wrote: >> "Contact your motherboard manufacturer" is much more time >> consuming than "Run sysctl... | grep foo | awk ..." to see if your >> system is affected. >=20 > Gift^WStraight from horse's mouth ... >=20 > http://blog.krisk.org/2013/02/packets-of-death.html I've already read this. > http://www.kriskinc.com/intel-pod I'd really rather a test which reads the EEPROM and tells me if it's a = problem rather than hang the interface on a machine :) In any case that isn't the point - this may be a "vendor issue" but it = reflects poorly on Intel that they didn't take proper ownership of the = issue. It would be far, far better for their image to say "some systems = may have the fault, go to http://.... to find a way to test for your = operating system". -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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