tg3 network cards

[Ryan Steele]

Ryan Steele wrote:
>
> It may be that a bug needs to be filed against the klibc-utils 
> package; a binary that hangs after trying one interface is a horrible 
> implementation - it cripples PXE functionality.
I should probably clarify here - obviously Broadcom takes most of the 
blame, as this doesn't happen with nicer Intel NICs.  But I think 
ipconfig should time out after a certain period of time and restart 
networking (or maybe moprobe -r and then modprobe the module again) 
which restores connectivity, and try again on another interface.  In 
either case, completely destroying the network stack and doing nothing 
about it is unacceptable.

Respectfully,
Ryan