Hi,
I've been doing that quite some time ago (must have been somewhen in 2007 when we implemented ORe).
That's strange. I thought that the issue is applicable for all e1000 NICs. At least the fact that symptoms occur on two different boards with two different cards made me think so.
Maybe something has been changed in Linux server since the time you tested it?
Or maybe it only those two cards :))). In latter case no one can't even reproduce the issue and I would try to locate the problem later on. Can't say when yet.
Best Regards, Alexander Valitov