e1000 driver hang

Hm ... I monitor this thread since some years (!!) now and the intel platform has this issue since ages and it is in the Linux Kernel or in the Intel network drivers in the kernel!! And it is there for ages.
Yes it sometimes hit and sometimes not for ages, so I assume noone really knows how systems get affected after an update that worked a long time before - or it was just that short that you never noticed it before :-)

I just wonder why there are expectations that Proxmox staff can fix this?
 
Interesting... Someone email Linus Torvalds!
I kid, of course - but you would maybe think that some hyper nerd (don't worry I say that with love - I'm one too!) would have pushed a fix, potentially, over the years?

Unless it's simply a fault or limitation of the hardware; a little like Spectre/Meltdown, or like AMD's current chip's memory controllers - they're doing their best and modern software's just too fast or broad for them.

I don't necessarily expect Proxmox to fix this but it is their problem by proxy of it affecting their software - so in the same way that Spectre/Meltdown were Microsoft's problem as much as they were Intel's and AMD's, this by relation is in part up to Proxmox to at least address somewhat (even if the addressing is simply an advisory that they know it's there and cannot fix it and to use X, Y or Z reccomendations to work around it.)

Anyway nothing but love to the team there, just my thoughts on it all!
 
I have applied the workaround a while ago and all was working well. But the recent updates triggered something in a Windows 11 24H2 VM where I had the NIC set to Intel E1000. The VM's network connection stopped working. The adapter was available ans "working", the VM just had no Internet connection so I replaced the driver forthe VirtIO one and all started working.
Hence why I wanted to ask if anyone experiencing the network issues was/is using the virtual Intel NIC in any of the Proxmox VM's.
(and yes, I did read mbca2's post, but only after I've changed the adapter and came here with the question)
 
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https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000055236/ethernet-products/gigabit-ethernet-controllers-up-to-2-5gbe.html

Intel "i2xx" nic is an absolute garbage, best joke they calling this "E1000/E1000E" :D
The original e1000 adapter was produced nearly 20 years ago, when it was a "proper" server grade nic hardware ( INTEL PRO1000 ).

Upgrade something "higher" or buy Broadcom NIC.
 
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