Several bugfixes in netxen nic driver have been submitted to upstream kernel. There are few more patches are coming to support next revision of netxen chip. All these patches (including the new ones after their acceptance) need to be backported to RHEL5 kernel. Some of the existing patches in upstream kernel have been backported with bug #443619.
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