Comment 62 for bug 136836

I was having problems with large data transfers. My PC's intergrated ethernet port used to go down & come up in a few seconds by itself. The solution given above resolved my problem. Though my hardware is differnet, this seems to be a general issue with forcedeth drivers on Ubuntu standard kernels.

I am using Hardy 64bit Server on Asus P5N-MX board.

Linux 2.6.27-7-server #1 SMP Tue Nov 4 20:16:57 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux

lshw output:
 *-network
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: MCP73 Ethernet
       vendor: nVidia Corporation
       physical id: f
       bus info: pci@0000:00:0f.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: a2
       serial: 00:22:15:54:bb:9a
       size: 100MB/s
       capacity: 100MB/s
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 66MHz
       capabilities: pm msi bus_master cap_list ethernet physical mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=forcedeth driverversion=0.61 duplex=full ip=192.168.100.101 latency=0 link=yes maxlatency=20 mingnt=1 module=forcedeth multicast=yes port=MII speed=100MB/s