[5.6] Links are not up occasionally during boot when it is 10GbE(ixgbe)NIC with coaxial cable

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Issue

  • Links are not up occasionally during boot when it is 10GbE(ixgbe)NIC with coaxial cable.
  • When we operate the system with the Intel 10GbE NIC (IXGBE) attached with coaxial cable(10G-Base twinax),sometimes the link-up is failed after boot process.
  • When we use the driver from the INTEL support site , this malfunction never happens. So, we think this is caused by some glitch in the IXGBE driver included in RH56 system.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Update 6
  • x86_64
  • Kernel Version: kernel 2.6.18-238.el5
  • ixgbe driver :2.0.84-k2

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