Over the last [few]{20060802210126} [days]{20060803233234}, I have been experiencing odd crashes. I have been able to narrow it down to network activity. Most of the time this has been triggered with NFS access; I assume that it has something to do with large UDP fragments; my MTU is 1500.

The last couple of days I have had a serial console connected to the machine, and my laptop standing by waiting for another crash. It occurred, but something really bad happened because on the console I only got:

[   65.597418] [drm] writeback test succeeded in 1 usecs
[  835.777136]
[  835.777138] HARDWARE ER

… and then the system was completely locked up. I really wish I knew what that HARDWARE ERROR was :(

I guess this sounds familiar. On day one, I was looking for answers and found a windows user having the same problems. I have ordered an e1000 NIC.

I put an old 3COM NIC into a PCI slot and have been using that.