yeah..I shoulda got the igb cards...8-( broadcomm is what defaults on the dell servers. unrelated we had to recently deal with broadcom drivers being botched on windows server 2012 for it visualization platform...so there you have it...
will report back after a real world test...thanks again. Daren On Sun, Oct 4, 2015 at 1:51 PM, Willy Tarreau <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 04, 2015 at 01:10:26PM -0700, Daren Sefcik wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 4, 2015 at 1:03 PM, Willy Tarreau <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I don't know how you can do on FreeBSD. On Linux you check with > ethtool -i. > > > The worst versions of the chips reported firmware 1.9.6, though several > > > more recent ones still had problems but not *that* important. > > > > > > > Does this help? > > > > /root: pciconf -alV bge0 > > bge0@pci0:2:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x1f5b1028 chip=0x165f14e4 rev=0x00 > > hdr=0x00 > > VPD ident = 'Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet' > > VPD ro PN = 'BCM95720' > > VPD ro MN = '1028' > > VPD ro V0 = 'FFV7.10.59' > > VPD ro V1 = 'DSV1028VPDR.VER1.0' > > VPD ro V2 = 'NPY2' > > VPD ro V3 = 'PMT1' > > VPD ro V4 = 'NMVBroadcom Corp' > > VPD ro V5 = 'DTINIC' > > VPD ro V6 = 'DCM1001008d452101008d45' > > Definitely, it seems to show version 7.10.59, which is way more recent > than the ones I've had to deal with. Well I suspect that at some point > we'll have to declare that this vendor cannot build a working NIC... > > Willy > >
