[Bug 382671] [NEW] DHCP and ping failure on e1000e

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Every morning I boot my two systems: one Dell Vostro 200 running 32-bit
Jaunty, the other an Acer Extensa running Windows XP Professional SP3.
The Extensa and the Vostro are both wired to the same consumer-grade
router, a Belkin F5D8233.

The Extensa gets itself an IP through DHCP and logs onto the domain, no
problem. Everything network-y (email, web, network drives etc) works
fine.

The Vostro times out. It sends out lots of DHCPDISCOVER packets. Only
after numerous manual "sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart" (and much
foul language) does it finally see a DHCPOFFER from the Belkin. Once
this happens, everything works perfectly. It's just the initial failures
that irritate me. (It doesn't help that the router itself is rubbish,
but I try not to stress the poor thing. Anyway the problem predates the
installation of the router.) Hibernating instead of shutting down
doesn't help; the network stays connected, but the link is dead on wake-
up and I have to "sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart".

This problem has been with the Vostro since Gutsy (it's been upgraded to
Hardy and Intrepid before Jaunty, never is there a fix). IIRC there were
some driver issues with Gutsy which were finally resolved in Intrepid
(no more manual driver compiling at every kernel upgrade, hurrah).

I've tried Network Manager and wicd, neither fixes the problem. I've
stuck with wicd for now, because I want my boss to be able to access
network services on the Vostro even when I'm not here.

I'm guessing it's a bug in the e1000e driver. I can't see what else it
might be.

Here are some data regarding my setup, hopefully something obvious is
wrong. Thanks for reading.

arichardson at vostro-1:~$ lspci | grep -i eth
00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82562V-2 10/100 Network Connection (rev 02)

arichardson at vostro-1:~$ sudo lshw -C network
  *-network               
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: 82562V-2 10/100 Network Connection
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 19
       bus info: pci at 0000:00:19.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: 02
       serial: 00:1a:a0:8e:3b:b4
       size: 100MB/s
       capacity: 100MB/s
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=e1000e driverversion=0.3.3.3-k6 duplex=full firmware=1.1-2 ip=10.22.5.104 latency=0 link=yes module=e1000e multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=100MB/s

arichardson at vostro-1:~$ sudo ifconfig -a
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1a:a0:8e:3b:b4  
          inet addr:10.22.5.104  Bcast:10.22.5.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::21a:a0ff:fe8e:3bb4/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1478  Metric:1
          RX packets:682199 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:516363 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 
          RX bytes:596725935 (596.7 MB)  TX bytes:53380925 (53.3 MB)
          Memory:fdfc0000-fdfe0000 

eth0:0    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1a:a0:8e:3b:b4  
          inet addr:10.22.5.3  Bcast:10.22.5.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1478  Metric:1
          Memory:fdfc0000-fdfe0000 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:13995 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:13995 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:7599721 (7.5 MB)  TX bytes:7599721 (7.5 MB)

arichardson at vostro-1:~$ cat /etc/network/interfaces 
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
mtu 1478
timeout 5

auto eth0:0
iface eth0:0 inet static
address 10.22.5.3
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 10.22.5.2
mtu 1478

arichardson at vostro-1:~$ sudo lsmod | grep e1
e1000e                121136  0 

arichardson at vostro-1:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description:	Ubuntu 9.04
Release:	9.04

** Affects: linux (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Confirmed


** Tags: dhcp restart timeout
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DHCP and ping failure on e1000e
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bugs/382671
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