Comment 74 for bug 454747

I don't manually reset the device. This is done automatically, after the reset it renegotiaties the NIC speed too 100 full duplex and resumes operation. It might be that I also experience loss but my network load is so low it isn't noticeable.

I've bypassed the problem as well now by removing the RAID card I had to free the only PCI slot in the machine and placed a Intel dualport GBit nic. Then I proceded to blacklist the via_rhine module (for some reason the BIOS does not allow me to hard-disable the two onboard nics) and I have had no more issues since then. I will keep my subscription to this bug open because I might start testing multicasting and vlan's and intend to use seperate nics for seperate purposes.

I do believe I'm affected by the same bug (Same sequence of events followed by a hard reset and the netdev watchdog dump in the logs) but perhaps due to configuration differences (or even different firmware/build revisions of the NIC) it was not fatal in my system.