On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Steve Thompson <s...@vgersoft.com> wrote: > On Sun, 27 Sep 2009, Ryan Pugatch wrote: > >> Evangelos Souglakos wrote: >>> We are experiencing network problems on i/o and network loaded R710 >>> Poweredge servers. Network connectivity dies after some time. >>> The systems needs to be powered down to bring the NICs back to life. >> >> Supposedly, loading the bnx2 module with disable_msi=1 resolves this >> problem. >> >> There is a version of the netxtreme driver available that is newer than >> the one provided by RHEL/CentOS. You can get this from Dell's site. In >> my experience, using this driver resolves the problem. > > I have just taken delivery of a T710 w/BCM5709's, and can confirm that the > disable_msi=1 trick does *not* resolve this problem; I have had the system > hang while idle, 5 minutes after a cold start. Installing the netxtreme > driver *does* fix the issue. Not very clever, guys.
I have a R410 here. I wonder if they have the same driver. I thought the eth NICs on this one were Broadcoms. -- Rahul _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
