Akemi,

Thanks for the link.  I already researched that one.  The systems in 
question do not have SCSI and buying new NIC cards will not work.

-connie sieh

On Wed, 11 Feb 2009, Akemi Yagi wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Connie Sieh <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> There are lots of reports of issues like this for tg3 but most reports end
>> in "did not hear from requester so closing" or "Fedora Core X is not
>> supported any more so closing".  Does anyone know of a real solution to this
>> problem.  Reading all the bugzilla and Google results for this problem make
>> my head hurt :-) .  Note that the error message
>> "tg3_stop_block timed out" can be a generic message thus having many causes.
>>
>> We have been experiencing intermittent network failures on systems running
>> SLF47 2.6.9-78.0.1 kernel/tg3 3.86 driver .  They waiting for the tcp to
>> finish, which never happens.  The failures are load-related.
>>
>> This error happened from time to time over the life of these nodes
>> but they were operating more or less stably under SLF45/x86_64, tg3 3.77
>> driver.
>>
>> There are reports of this issue for RHEL 5 too.
>
> I see one success story in the CentOS forum here (note #4):
>
> http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?viewmode=flat&order=ASC&topic_id=15932&forum=39
>
> May not be a solution for all cases but at lease something to look at.
>
> Akemi
>