Description of problem: when doing ethtool selftest on igb, this will cauze network connection interruption, after the selftests finishes, the driver is not restored, the route entry with the interface is flushed, network remains unreachable. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): # uname -r 2.6.18-236.el5 # ethtool -i eth0 driver: igb version: 2.1.0-k2-1 firmware-version: 1.3-0 bus-info: 0000:01:00.0 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. ethtool -t eth0 offline 2. the connection on the host will lost, ping not reachable 3. Actual results: Expected results: network should be unaffected. Additional info:
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 662008 ***