Interesting debugging: Specific packets cause some Intel gigabit ethernet controllers to reset
Jay Ashworth
jra at baylink.com
Wed Feb 6 20:47:50 UTC 2013
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kristian Kielhofner" <kris at kriskinc.com>
> Over the year I've read some interesting (horrifying?) tales of
> debugging on NANOG. It seems I finally have my own to contribute:
>
> http://blog.krisk.org/2013/02/packets-of-death.html
>
> The strangest issue I've experienced, that's for sure.
FWIW, I had a similar situation crop up a couple of years ago with *five
different* Seagate SATA drives: they grew some specific type of bad spot
on the drive which, if you even tried to read it, would *knock the drive
adapter off line until powercycle*; even a reboot didn't clear it.
Nice writeup.
Cheers,
-- jra
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