Re: [Qemu-devel] is it just me or is ne2k broken in qemu?

[Mulyadi Santosa]

On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 09:31, Michael Tokarev <address@hidden> wrote:
> I performed several tests of various emulated NICs
> booting with iPXE, and discovered that ne2k_pci (*)
> emulated device does not quite work, for quite some
> time already, at least with linux guests.
>
> The NIC works for a while, but after a few packets,
> or a few 1000s of packets, it stalls.  In tcpdump
> on the host I see many ARP requests coming from the
> guest and each has corresponding ARP reply, but
> nothing is actually reaching the guest.

IIRC, several people complained roughly the same thing about
ne2k...and it's about timer implementation inside the code.

For workaround, if possible, use e1000...works for me so far....

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