[voltagex_]

That bug is from 2017 on an older driver. Have you tried the same thing with igb on a recent kernel?

    $ ethtool -i enp0s20f1
    driver: igb
    version: 5.4.0-k
    firmware-version: 0.0.0
    expansion-rom-version:
    bus-info: 0000:00:14.1
    supports-statistics: yes
    supports-test: yes
    supports-eeprom-access: yes
    supports-register-dump: yes
    supports-priv-flags: yes

[dpwm]

No. If it was my own machine I'd certainly try it out – but it's work's machine running Debian stretch, so we switched to a difference NIC with a Realtek interface which has given no problems and meets our performance requirements.

To be clear, this appears to be a problem with the newness of the chipset and the time it takes to get drivers into upstream – the chipset we switched to had its fair share of teething problems when it first came out.

Intel had a long-standing reputation for rock-solid network cards with great open-source drivers ready the day of release – a reputation Realtek has never really had.

[luckman212]

This is the first time I've heard of switching TO a Realtek chipset to solve a networking problem.