Hello IPFire fellows,
I have an IPFIRE firewall which stayed on build/core 173 up to January/2025 (I know, I know, I should have done the updates before, but this is what it is).
I started updating from core 173 to 188. Then 188 to 191.
Everything seems fine, however, from time to time (I don’t know yet what specifically triggers the problem) the e1000e Ethernet boards hang, with a dmesg message:
e1000e 0000:00:1f.6 green0: Detected Hardware Unit Hang
or in another interface
e1000e 0000:00:19.0 red0: Detected Hardware Unit Hang:
And the network stops responding. I trace back the problem to faulty(buggy) hardware chipsets from intel and the TSO problem, and I will try the workaround based on the topic found here
https://community.ipfire.org/t/network-error-after-core-update-188/12154
However, when I was operating with core 173 I had no problems at all, with an incredible uptime, with no network failures.
Some have changed in the e1000e driver?
Some have pointed out that this NIC isn’t reliable, despite the fact it is an Intel chipset. I was not planning to change this NIC. But I’m willing to try cheap Realtek Gigabit chipsets instead.
Any comments?
Thanks in advance for all help and good work.
Eduardo Pellini