After changing the ring buffer on nic, the network drops.

Solution Unverified - Updated -

Issue

  • The network goes down, when I change the network ring buffer with the following command:
ethtool -G em1 rx 2047

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5
  • driver: tg3
  • version: 3.132
  • firmware-version: FFV7.10.64 bc 5720-v1.36

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