Why do my Emulex be2net NICs lose connectivity and show incoming dropped and overrun packets after updating to RHEL 6.5?

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Issue

  • Why do my Emulex be2net NICs loose connectivity after updating to RHEL6.5?
  • Why do my Emulex be2net NICs exhibit dropped and overruns incoming packets in ifconfig output?
  • Why aren't interrupts being raised for be2net NICs?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • kernel version 2.6.32-431.el6 or later
  • be2net firmware earlier than 4.0

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