Murphy was toying with me, and 2 nodes had the NIC reset issue in Los Angeles today, the one posted concerns me as it was running with all the known fixes and still flaked, but I did update from the 2.0.0 e1000e driver to the 2.0.0.1 driver Intel released recently.
Code:
[root@e3la16 src]# modinfo e1000e | grep ver
filename: /lib/modules/2.6.32-042stab057.1/kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/e1000e.ko
version: 2.0.0.1
description: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver
srcversion: 3072FB0985A1753E9BE36FB
vermagic: 2.6.32-042stab057.1 SMP mod_unload modversions
[root@e3la16 src]# dmesg | grep Network
[ 5.045681] e1000e: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - 2.0.0
[ 5.130418] e1000e 0000:04:00.0: eth0: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection
[ 5.218992] e1000e 0000:05:00.0: eth1: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection
[22792.419747] e1000e: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - 2.0.0.1
[22792.506714] e1000e 0000:04:00.0: eth0: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection
[22792.598232] e1000e 0000:05:00.0: eth1: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection
[root@e3la16 src]#