Why does tg3 link become down when "ethtool -G" is run on RHEL6?

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Issue

  • Why does tg3 link become down when "ethtool -G" is run on RHEL6?

Sample log:

# ethtool -G eth0 rx 256
# dmesg | tail -3
tg3 0000:03:00.0: eth0: Link is down
tg3 0000:03:00.0: eth0: Link is up at 1000 Mbps, full duplex
tg3 0000:03:00.0: eth0: Flow control is on for TX and on for RX

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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